A Prescription for Saving America’s Healthcare from RFK Jr.

There are a number of actions that could be taken to help shield states and their citizens from the corruption, abuse, waste, and fraud being wrought by HHS Secretary RFK Jr’s attacks on America’s medical / healthcare systems and processes. These efforts would not only counter the damage being done by RFK Jr. but could also display strong leadership on other issues impacting broad areas of the nation’s medical and healthcare arena.

The challenge of course is to know how to do this.

That requires recognizing the options and opportunities for what could be done and creating the strategies to use to accomplish the goals for protecting against and correcting the misguided actions by RFK Jr.; and delivering additional benefits to states’s citizens.

Leaders, politicians, and others have the opportunity to address and act on the anti-science issues around public healthcare that will make a difference and show leadership. Or they can just make their statements that they don’t approve of or agree with the actions being taken by RFK Jr. in his leadership of HHS. The former is the most effective strategy in many ways, especially in demonstrating leadership in countering and reversing the harm being done to America’s healthcare. The latter is sadly what more often happens.

By adopting and using appropriate strategies, you can accomplish a great deal in restoring efficacy and productivity to the healthcare arena. The successes you can attain for the public include, but are not limited to:

• Vaccine Research & Science, and Vaccination Processes & Policies:

  • Restore independent expert advisors on vaccines and processes

  • Use non-partisan standards in vaccine approval reviews

  • Follow vaccination guidelines supported by medical community

  • Prevent loss of leading researchers/scientists’s expertise and knowledge

  • Protect research funding and projects from arbitrary & partisan decisions that conform to his views (non-independent research decision-making)

  • Protect research from being used as a political item e.g., Autism research

• Medical & Healthcare Information:

  • Prevent Censorship, Misinformation, and partisan rewriting of information by non-expert political appointees

  • Prohibit Centralizing control across all HHS entities which is directed at limiting or restricting scientific independence of work

  • Insure that publications, documents, and public access to information: reports, policies, guidelines, findings, recommendations, and processes are approved by the medical & research personnel w/o interference by political agenda; including access to a statement in any documentation whether that information has been altered by appointed personnel w/o agreement of the authoring scientist(s)

• Medical, Scientific, & Healthcare Expertise

  • Insuring medical & research personnel have access to presenting and discussing information on issues / topics without approval of their content by appointees or elected officials

  • Retaining institutional expertise, knowledge, and methodologies

  • Selecting research programs, processes, and projects based on review and approval by committees composed of merit-based members

• Preserving the public and states with access to medical treatments

If you support and agree with all or most of these objectives and goals for America’s healthcare environments, then leaders need actionable strategies for accomplishing as much of these goals as possible. There are numerous steps / strategies that you can take toward realizing these goals. Chief among them is the necessity of providing the leadership that is and will be essential. And part of that leadership is having some analysts and strategists who can provide you with various strategic approaches that provide a path toward these objectives. Just being in the position to leader is not sufficient if you don’t have the solutions to the problems that you must overcome.

If you don’t have strategic approaches already being presented by your advisers then it is important that you ask them to present some for any or all of these areas; or you could just ask.