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... Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for Americans"from depression screening to statin use, colonoscopies, and mammograms.

Recommendations from the panel -- the US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) -- don't simply provide guidance for Americans; they also determine access.

The USPSTF is supposed to use a rigorous, transparent framework for evaluating evidence and sets graded recommendations on an A to D scale. Health insurance providers are required to cover, at no cost, all preventive services that are given recommendations of an A or B grade. ...