Kennedy Revokes Decades-Old HHS Transparency Rule

Ars Technica reports:

Federal health policies and decisions are quickly becoming less transparent under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.—despite him telling Health Department employees just last month that he would work with them to “launch a new era of radical transparency.”

Since then, Kennedy has axed a public meeting on vaccines—leaving lingering questions about the future of those transparent proceedings. He has also revoked a broad transparency policy for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that required public notice for certain new rules and a comment period to allow for the public to be involved with the rulemaking process.

On Monday, Kennedy published the new policy in the Federal Register, which specifically revoked a transparency rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1971.

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ICYMI RFK Jr would like fewer annoying public comments on HHS policy changes.

That means when he changes rules about vaccine authorization, how NIH grants are issued, or how CDC collects surveillance data, he doesn’t want experts or the public to objecthttps://t.co/4v4yCPgbFi

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