"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research
US healthcare is broken. Under RFK Jr., the research agency working to fix it is, too.
Experts and lawmakers have harshly criticized Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allegedly undermining healthcare research efforts. The agency responsible for studying ways to enhance America's healthcare system is reportedly on the verge of collapse. The Trump administration has drastically reduced the agency's workforce by 75 percent, canceled numerous grants, and is refusing to allocate tens of millions of dollars allocated by Congress.
The future of the agency, known as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), remains uncertain, according to health policy experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins. They raised concerns about the agency's future in an opinion piece published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The AHRQ's primary focus has been on improving patient safety, healthcare quality, care delivery, and new technologies and practices since the 1990s.
However, Republican leaders once acknowledged that health care disparities were fundamental quality issues. Unfortunately, disparities in care have lately become a partisan issue.
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