GOP senators rally around effort to end 'radical wokeness' in HHS task force

SPECIAL Three Senate Republicans are backing up Soundness and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr s viable effort to modification the U S Preventive Services Task Force saying that the group has of late been ideologically motivated The independent task force is used to determine recommendations of what services robustness insurance companies in the United States have to cover for free such as checking for cancer Americans deserve to know soundness guidelines are based on real science not radical wokeness The Task Force requirements to get back to its mission of giving clear evidence-based recommendations people can trust Sen Jim Banks R-Indiana reported in a declaration I'M A PHYSICIAN AND I'M WORRIED THAT OUR STRENGTH AGENCIES ARE FACING INCREASING CHAOSThe Wall Street Journal disclosed that Kennedy is considering removing members of the board and the senators are saying they back any change to veer away from certain DEI tactics employed by the group at present including the Overview to Congress on High-Priority Evidence Gaps for Clinical Preventive Services and social justice activism by people in the group In particular the USPSTF departed from its proper pursuits in its December Medical Equity Framework The framework criticizes equal access to quality wellness care for all as an inadequate goal of masses physical condition and announces that the Task Force will instead use equity as a criterion of the constituents vitality importance of a topic for consideration the letter added Far from purely recognizing soundness disparities between certain populations physical condition equity as described by the USPSTF includes information on vulnerability factors that intersect with race and or ethnicity or other disadvantaged populations e g sexual and gender minorities and that affect prevalence and burden of complaint and any inequities in how preventive services are provided accessed or received These criteria would allow the Task Force to issue recommendations outside its proper purview and impose leftwing ideology it continues SEN RAND PAUL KENNEDY IS CONFRONTING 'CORRUPT' HEALTHCARE AGENCIES TO MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AGAINSpecifically they mentioned that changes could be needed to fulfill President Donald Trump s Executive Order to scrap DEI efforts within the federal regime along with an EO on restoring merit-based opportunity and ending illegal discrimination Allowing the Task Force to pursue the Physical condition Equity Framework means allowing it to exceed its statutory mission and target social groups that comport with a progressive agenda It means discounting universally beneficial recommendations as inadequate It means disregarding statutory limits and instead undertaking a social justice crusade through the lens of critical race theory and gender ideology This would be a mistake The effect is ineffectiveness discrimination and division The USPSTF should be working for all Americans equally the letter added No final decision has been made on how the USPSTF can better aid HHS mandate to Make America Healthy Again an HHS spokesperson notified Fox News Digital in a message when demanded about the WSJ overview WATCH RFK JR REBUKES DEM SENATOR FOR PLAYING POLITICS WITH CANCER-STRICKEN CONSTITUENT 'YOU DON'T CARE'There has already been several opposition to the possibility of removing the members including from the American Diagnostic Association USPSTF plays a critical non-partisan role in guiding physicians efforts to prevent disorder and improve the fitness of patients by helping to ensure access to evidence-based clinical preventive services the AMA wrote in a letter to Kennedy As such we urge you to retain the previously appointed members of the USPSTF and commit to the long-standing process of regular meetings to ensure their key work can continue without interruption