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The Day by day Beast is reporting that Kennedy and President Donald Trump are cooking up a plan to MAHA, or Make America Wholesome Once more, by banning the COVID-19 vaccine. Sure, ban. Not simply refuse to authorize it for sure subgroups, akin to kids—he did that some time in the past. Neither is it a defunding of a sure kind of drug expertise, which Kennedy has already accomplished. This one is the entire package and caboodle.
Kennedy, an anti-vaccine conspiracist who has as a lot medical coaching as a pet rock, has been pushing a 2022 examine displaying critical adversarial results from taking mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Certain, that examine was largely discredited for a number of causes, together with methodological flaws, biased knowledge, and overlooking public well being impacts. However that gained’t cease Mr. MAHA.
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Not solely will Kennedy Make Covid Nice Once more, his unhinged anti-vax views might end in producers of different vaccines leaving the market too. Certainly one of Kennedy’s proposed methods to pressure vaccine makers out of enterprise is to decimate the federal vaccine harm compensation program, which is used to pay claims alleging an harm from a vaccine. That program gives a stage of certainty and safety to drug producers in order that conspiracy nuts like Kennedy can’t bankrupt them with nonsense claims.
So, good luck to all of us in determining whether or not we will slip into Canada or Mexico or fly to Europe or no matter, simply to get a booster shot.
Not content material to supervise what is going to little doubt be waves of sickness and demise if—effectively, when, actually—COVID takes maintain once more, Kennedy can be apparently set to wield decision-making authority over who will get kicked off of Medicare
Did we point out Kennedy’s distinct lack of medical coaching?
However, he apparently will get to find out if somebody is “medically frail” and subsequently not topic to the brand new work requirement embedded in Trump’s beloved One Large Lovely Invoice. Hey, Kennedy’s received to have the ability to kick lots of people off the Medicaid rolls to hit the deliberate $911 billion minimize to the federally backed medical insurance program. Mr. MAHA to the rescue!
After all, most individuals on Medicaid do already work. A Congressional Price range Workplace examine of one of many predecessors to the disastrous funds invoice confirmed that this work requirement would certainly minimize Medicaid spending however wouldn’t end in elevated employment. For one factor, in keeping with a latest examine from KFF, virtually 3 in 10 folks on Medicaid weren’t working due to faculty attendance, sickness or incapacity, or caregiving duties, which makes them exempt underneath earlier insurance policies.
The KFF examine discovered that, whereas a comparatively small portion of current Medicaid enrollees can be affected, many extra enrollees who would stay eligible can be liable to shedding protection due to the executive burden and purple tape associated to reporting necessities.
Stripping us of essential medical interventions, forcing folks with disabilities off of Medicaid: Kennedy is a one-man wrecking crew.
