RFK Jr. Seeks To Peek at Americans’ Medical Records for Clues on Autism and Vaccines
The effort would give federal officials access to data from state exchanges and could reach 90% of Americans’ records by 2028, officials said.
- U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal access to most Americans' medical records to investigate a potential link between vaccines and autism, collecting identifiable patient information from state-run health systems.
- Under the proposed initiative, the Department of Health and Human Services would pay state exchanges $3 per person annually, aiming to obtain data from 90% of the population's medical records by 2028.
- Nebraska's health department received $18.7 million in CDC funding last year, and CyncHealth was awarded contracts totaling $13.6 million, which spokesperson Grace McNamara described as a proof-of-concept project.
- Public health leaders have objected to the plan, citing concerns about federal access to sensitive medical history; Maryland exchange leader Craig Behm declined to share data due to contractual restrictions.
- Kennedy has asserted without evidence that vaccines cause chronic illness, a stance President Donald Trump has echoed; former CDC official Daniel Jernigan noted the government possesses limited legal authority to access these state records.
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U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.
RFK Jr. quiere acceder a los historiales médicos de los estadounidenses para buscar vínculos entre el autismo y las vacunas
Por Amanda Seitz y Darius Tahir, KFF Health News El secretario de Salud de Estados Unidos, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., está intentando que el Gobierno federal acceda a los historiales médicos de la mayoría de los estadounidenses, en un intento por investigar el supuesto vínculo entre las vacunas y el autismo, una conexión que la comunidad médica ha estudiado durante décadas y que rechaza rotundamente. Según ha podido saber KFF Health News, el Departa…
RFK Jr. seeks to peek at Americans’ medical records for clues on autism and vaccines
U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.
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Must read story below; reaction from Kayla Hancock, Director of Protect Our Care’s Public Health Project: “RFK Jr. has an abysmal track record of citing unsubstantiated sources and far-reaching conclusions to challenge vaccine safety that inevitably fall apart under scientific scrutiny. It should concern us all that the nation’s top health official is dictating federal vaccine guidance based on questionable research that needed to be retracted. …
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