In his battle with doctors, RFK Jr.'s got GOP lawmakers on his side
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s tenure as health secretary is straining Republicans’ relationship with the medical establishment to what’s looking like a breaking point.
Doctors and their professional associations, such as the American Medical Association and American Academy of Pediatrics, have clashed with the GOP over health policy changes, but Kennedy has given them a leftward shove by deriding them as pharma flunkeys and progressive ideologues. In recent months, Kennedy has sparred with the groups over vaccine guidance, transgender care, the handling of the pandemic and whether pregnant women are putting their children at risk of autism if they take Tylenol.
The groups have long been considered nonpartisan and have many conservative members. But Republicans in Congress are piling on, potentially risking the medical profession’s evolution into a Democratic-leaning interest group. In turn, that would winnow doctors’ influence on policy issues when Republicans are in power, and prompt big shifts in public health guidance when Democrats are.
Some GOP lawmakers say it’s the doctors that lost them as they moved left. “We kind of have a crisis of credibility,” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) said of physician leaders in the health care establishment. Kennedy, he added, “is a product of that distrust. He is a reaction to what many people feel, that they were being ignored.”
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The AMA vs brain worm and the brainless.
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