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3 weeks ago | 
sanjuandailystar.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Gay Stolberg |Noah Weiland
By Christina Jewett, Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Noah WeilandThe Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure late last week and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public.
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3 weeks ago | 
startribune.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Gay Stolberg |Noah Weiland
The Food and Drug Administration's top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, resigned under pressure Friday and said that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. "It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies," Marks wrote to Sara Brenner, the agency's acting commissioner.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Gay Stolberg |Noah Weiland
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine official, Dr Peter Marks, abruptly resigned on March 29, saying in a searing letter that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s aggressive stance on vaccines was irresponsible and posed a danger to the public. “It has become clear that truth and transparency are not desired by the secretary, but rather he wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies,” Dr Marks wrote to Ms Sara Brenner, the agency’s acting commissioner.
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | Christina Jewett |Sheryl Gay Stolberg |Noah Weiland
"He's quite concerned about the integrity of the scientific enterprise," Dr. Lurie said, "and I share his concern that the secretary is making truth subservient to his own personal beliefs, which appear not to be grounded in science."Mr. Kennedy was confirmed by the Senate after a tense two days of hearings that included his repeated pledges to uphold the importance of vaccinations.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Noah Weiland |Jan Hoffman
The decrease in fentanyl overdoses, drug policy experts have said, has more to do with public health measures than changes in border policies.
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1 month ago | 
democrats.org | Noah Weiland |Sarah Kliff |Shelby Reese
Key Point: “Cutting Medicaid spending, which is central to the budget bill that House Republicans may bring to a vote on Tuesday, could result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage … If states picked up the costs from the federal government and kept their expansion populations in place, they would spend more than $600 billion to do so over a decade, an increase of almost 20 percent, according to KFF.
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1 month ago | 
nytimes.com | Noah Weiland |Sarah Kliff
House Republicans hunting for ways to pay for President Trump's tax cuts have called for cutting the federal government's share of Medicaid spending, including a proposal that would effectively gut the Affordable Care Act's 2014 expansion of the program. Republicans are considering lowering the 90 percent share that the federal government is required to pay to states that enroll participants in the expansion.
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2 months ago | 
bostonglobe.com | Noah Weiland
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Friday that it would drastically cut annual spending on so-called navigator groups that help Americans enroll in Obamacare health insurance plans, from around $100 million to just $10 million. The announcement was one of the first significant health policy actions by the Trump administration, a day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as health secretary.
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2 months ago | 
miamiherald.com | Noah Weiland
The Trump administration said Friday that it would drastically cut annual spending on so-called navigator groups that help Americans enroll in Obamacare health insurance plans, from around $100 million to just $10 million. The announcement was one of the first significant health policy actions by the Trump administration, a day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as health secretary.
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2 months ago | 
idahostatesman.com | Noah Weiland
The Trump administration said Friday that it would drastically cut annual spending on so-called navigator groups that help Americans enroll in Obamacare health insurance plans, from around $100 million to just $10 million. The announcement was one of the first significant health policy actions by the Trump administration, a day after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as health secretary.
