{"id":5687,"date":"2025-07-29T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/rfk-jr-vetting-new-members-uspstf-preventive-services-task-force\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:02:44","slug":"rfk-jr-vetting-new-members-uspstf-preventive-services-task-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/29\/rfk-jr-vetting-new-members-uspstf-preventive-services-task-force\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Preventive care panel could be restructured \u2018imminently\u2019 as RFK Jr. vets new members"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Preventive care panel could be restructured \u2018imminently\u2019 as RFK Jr. vets new members
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WASHINGTON \u2014 Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could \u201cimminently\u201d overhaul a key federal advisory panel<\/a> that recommends which preventive services insurers must pay for, according to a person familiar with the plans.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The person said that federal health officials are actively vetting new members for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. David Mansdoerfer, an adviser to a Kennedy-aligned group of physicians, said he\u2019s aware of people being considered for the panel, but declined to name them.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Wall Street Journal reported<\/a> on Friday that Kennedy planned to remake the panel and viewed its current members as too \u201cwoke.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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STAT+: Preventive care panel could be restructured \u2018imminently\u2019 as RFK Jr. vets new members WASHINGTON \u2014 Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could \u201cimminently\u201d overhaul a key federal advisory panel that recommends which preventive services insurers must pay for, according to a person familiar with the plans.\u00a0 The person said that federal health officials are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2362,1428,2288,2147,2213,2176,2314,2151,2144,2180,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-5687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-chronic-disease","category-health","category-health-insurance","category-hhs","category-insurance","category-pharma","category-physicians","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}