Like #CA #GovNewsom, top Dem candidate for state's highest office pulls a #Gavin and quietly backs away from previous pledge to support #SinglePayer #Healthcare in America's most populous state...

#Newsom previously earned a big endorsement from state's powerful #nurses union before betraying promise to put issue on his agenda once elected.

Spokesman for former #HHS secretary under #Biden calls goal "unrealistic"

capitalandmain.com/in-californ…

"A bill passed by the state legislature in March then signed into law by Democratic Gov. Jared Polis allows Colorado to further uncouple itself from federal guidance.

The law allows health officials to follow the recommendations of national medical groups when making decisions such as purchasing bulk vaccines for the Medicaid program."

kffhealthnews.org/public-healt…

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #medicaid #colorado #CDC #HHS #misinformation #WHO

"In letters dated May 11, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. notified the two doctors who chaired the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force that he was terminating their appointments immediately, before the end of their multiyear terms."

apnews.com/article/trump-kenne…

#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #USPSTF #PrimaryCare #insurance #ACA

"A new HHS health advisory committee met very briefly Monday to introduce its members and outline its broad goals for reshaping large parts of the healthcare system...The committee's first meeting, which was livestreamed on Monday afternoon, was slated to run from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m...lasted for only 30 minutes, mainly because several sections took much less time than they were allotted."

medpagetoday.com/publichealthp…

#healthcare #HHS #cms #medicare #medicaid #CHIP #ACA #obamacare

"Across a vast and multilayered government, in which many leadership positions must be confirmed by a Senate that shares only a narrow partisan majority with the administration, it’s typical for some roles to remain unfilled or be occupied by interim leaders. But critics say the level of upheaval in the current HHS is unusual and the lack of scientific expertise among its leadership is concerning."

apnews.com/article/makary-fda-…

#healthcare #PublicHealth #FDA #HHS #NIH #CDC #leadership #USpol

"Artificially intelligent scribe software is part of a swarm of AI-powered tools coming to healthcare. Clinicians and patient-safety advocates say government regulations are not well constructed to guard against the threat that the new technology will miss or obscure important details of patients’ conditions, potentially harming them."

kffhealthnews.org/health-indus…

#healthcare #AI #LLM #EMR #EHR #HealthIT #technology #datasec #infosec #HHS

"States are asking a federal court in Texas to declare unconstitutional a part of federal law that requires states to provide services to disabled people in their communities, rather than in institutions, when appropriate."

19thnews.org/2026/05/gender-dy…

#PublicHealth #disabilities #hospitals #NursingHomes #schools #HHS #courts #USpol

"Working behind the scenes, Mr. Kennedy is spearheading an intense push, across health agencies under his purview, for government scientists and federal data contractors to examine his long-held theory that vaccines are helping to fuel an epidemic of chronic disease, according to multiple people familiar with the effort."

nytimes.com/2026/05/11/health/…

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #HHS #FDA #CDC #NIH