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May 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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February 5, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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" Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option."
risk and must firmly resist. The science is clear that efforts to expand health insurance coverage-notably the ACA and Medicaid expansion-improve outcomes, but the new administration is expected to end ACA subsidies and to find ways to limit Medicaid coverage and enrollment. The courts will soon rule on Braidwood Management Inc v Becerra, which challenges the constitutionality of the US Preventive Services Task Force and would eliminate ACA-mandated coverage of preventive services. If the plaintiffs win, patients will lose free access to mammography screenings, colonoscopy screenings, immunizations, and contraceptives. This would disproportionately affect low-income populations, lowering immunization coverage, increasing unwanted pregnancies, delaying detection of cancer and other diseases, and increasing mortality. The proper stance of the profession on these policies should be obvious. The science is clear that racial and ethnic health disparities are real, that they cost lives, and that they are perpetuated by structures and institutions in society that systematically disadvantage racial and ethnic minoritized populations. Elections and culture wars do not change that reality. Policies that deny the very existence of racial and ethnic disparities, prohibit the mention of racism by name, or ban efforts by the government, health care, and the private sector to reduce disparities will predictably increase morbidity and mortality and should be very existence of racial and ethnic disparities, prohibit the mention of racism by name, or ban efforts by the government, health care, and the private sector to reduce disparities will predictably increase morbidity and mortality and should be opposed by the profession. Wherever one stands on abortion, the science is clear that restricting access to reproductive health services worsens outcomes. The science is also clear that sexual and gender identity are distinct from biological sex, that neither are matters of personal choice, and that discrimination against the LGBTQ population harms physical and mental health. Policies that recognize only biological sex or that oppose gender-affirming care or efforts to protect LGBTQ populations, such as the highly vulnerable transgender youth population, should be opposed as vigorously as threats to any population. The science is clear that certain environmental agents are harmful. The profession must oppose efforts to lift regulations on industries that manufacture or emit these agents because they will increase public exposure and risk of diseases. The science on climate change could not be clearer, and evidence of its adverse health consequences increases daily. The profession cannot stand idly by as the new administration puts oil industry executives in charge, expands fossil fuel production, and actively opposes renewable energy alternatives. interference with independent scientific inquiry and decisions on research funding. The profession must oppose the censorship of data released by government agencies and any manipulation of the membership and findings of the scientific advisory committees on which policymakers and the public rely. In the end, politicians and the public are free to ignore medical advice and pursue policies that compromise health and safety, and they likely will, but this does not relieve the profession of its responsibility to make the dangers clear. At the bedside, respect for the freedom of patients to make their own decisions does not excuse physicians from the obligation to present adequate information to make informed choices and to advise against options that the physician believes will do more harm than good. The duty to the population is no different. Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option.
February 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Thank you!
February 2, 2025 at 4:08 AM