"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/08/sabotage-experts-lawmakers-blast-rfk-jr-for-destroying-healthcare-research/

The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn. The Trump administration has cut its staff by 75 percent, canceled its grants en masse, and is refusing to spend tens of millions of dollars appropriated by Congress.

Whether the agency “will survive the second Trump administration is an open question,” health policy experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins wrote in an opinion piece published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Dookieman12@piefed.social · 7 pts · 13d

Traitors gonna trait

Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 13d (2 replies)

BLAST!

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 2 pts · 13d (1 reply)

To shreds, you say?

Sturgist@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 13d

Good news everyone!

nehal3m@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 13d

The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn.

Well they can stop now because the problem is capitalism in this instance. So get to work taking that out of health care.