GOP doctors push Kennedy to reform the United States in terms of preventive care care

EXCLUSIVE: The Caucus du Gop Doctors supports a possible effort to revise the working group of American preventive services, or USPSTF, an independent working group which is used to determine the recommendations on services to health insurance companies in the United States.

A letter to the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., led by representative Diana Harshbarger, R-Tenn., And representative Greg Murphy, RN.C., and other Caucus members expressed their concerns that the group could prioritize social justice problems on other questions.

“Preventive care should be to keep Americans healthy, not checking the political boxes,” Harshbarger said in a statement.

“The American people deserves a working group that follows science, acts urgently and is based on the expertise of leading doctors. The USPSTF should lead to the accusation in the agenda of President Trump, the health of America”, not wasting time on awakened distractions while the rates of chronic diseases continue to climb. “”

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More specifically, the letter asks the “specialists concerned” to be part of the process during certain recommendations, greater transparency in decision-making and more emphasis on the results as opposed to “considerable attention to divisive social problems,” citing “the race and gender identity considerations that extend beyond traditional clinical parameters”, according to a press release.

“In 2010, the affordable care law expanded the authority of the USPSTF and coverage recommendations linked to the determinations of the working group. However, since the USPSTF authority has been extended, the incidence rate of chronic save disease in the United States has only climbed,” said the letter.

The letter was also signed by other members of the Caucus, including representatives Andy Harris, Ronny Jackson, Mike Kennedy, Brian Babin, Sheri Biggs and Bob Onder.

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Earlier this month, three Republican senators wrote a similar letter raising ideological concerns concerning the current working group.

“In particular, the USPSTF has moved away from its appropriate activities in its framework of health equity in December 2023. The critical framework” an equal access to quality health care for all “as an inadequate objective of public health and announces that the working group will rather use equity as” a criterion of “the importance of public health” of a subject “to consideration”, this letter indicated.

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“No final decision was made on how the USPSTF can better support HHS’s mandate to make America again healthy,” Fox News Digital spokesperson said at the time in a WSJ report.

The American Medical Association opposed an overhaul of the working group.

“The USPSTF plays a critical and non -partisan role in the orientation of the efforts of doctors to prevent diseases and improve patient health by helping to ensure access to clinical prevention services based on evidence. As such, we urge you to keep the previously designated members of the USPSTF and to engage in the long -standing process to guarantee that their important work can continue without interruption, “wrote the AMA.

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Meanwhile, a group of doctors, including those of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, American front line doctors and the Pennsylvania Direct Primary Care Association, signed another letter to support possible changes.

The signatories have written that new members should have an “ideological balance to develop recommendations based on facts and science”.

Fox News Digital contacted HHS for an updated comment.