The link goes to the comments instead of the body of the post.
Anyway, the decision comes with a huge catch:
While the ruling means that coverage of preventive health care is no longer under threat, the ruling clarifies that the health secretary has direct authority over the USPSTF. The clarification raises concern that the current secretary, Kennedy, could remove task force members and/or undo recommendations to suit his personal ideology, as he is now doing with the vaccine advisory board at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Preventative care is covered, but RFK Jr. has control over the group that recommends which preventative care should be covered.
Yep, as I posted in another thread yesterday, say hello to fully covered Ivermectin, Vitamin A, and cod liver oil. Meanwhile, actual preventative care will wind up not being covered at all.
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I’m an actuarie, don’t work in health insurance, but have friend who do, and is pretty known that preventive care save costs on the long run, at least in from an actuarial pov, and can’t understand why a health insurance company would be fighting against that, instead of promoting it.
I live in Brazil, so maybe things dosen’t work exactly as in the US.
The problem here is that the man in charge of defining what preventative care is is an anti-vaxxer who thinks Ivermectin and Vitamin A are more important that vaccinations and who literally swims with his grand kids in raw sewage.
Yeah but the group that decides what’s considered preventive care is now under the control of the insane, so they could just fire everyone and hire sycophants to decide not to include the shit that was the issue in the first place
