"Sabotage": Experts, lawmakers blast RFK Jr. for destroying healthcare research

Health policy experts warn that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is on the brink of collapse. As Ars Technica reports, the Trump administration has canceled grants en masse and cut the agency's staff by seventy-five percent. The agency, which has focused on patient safety and care delivery since the nineteen nineties, is also seeing tens of millions of dollars in congressional funding go unspent. Experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins say it is now an open question whether the organization will survive the current administration.

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