Health secretary is planning wide-ranging monitoring of autistic people’s health record and cuts to disability services
Autism experts and autistic people are pushing back on Robert F Kennedy’s “terrible” approach to autism as the health secretary plans more expansive monitoring of autistic people’s health records and proposes cuts to disability services.
A huge study on autism proposed by Kennedy will draw upon private medical records from federal and commercial databases, and a new health registry will track autistic Americans, CBS News reported on Monday.
A draft of proposed cuts to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), leaked on Wednesday, would also eliminate support for people with disabilities in the US, including education, research and services.
“It’s going to have an enormous chilling effect,” said Daniel Geschwind, professor and director of the UCLA Center for Autism Research and Treatment.
RFK Jr. believes all autistic people are incapable of doing near anything and because he feels they don’t pay into the system (many do) that they as an entire demographic need to be systematically purged. This nepo baby was never punished for anything he did and now has the power to enact truly heinous shit that runs counter to healthcare. This is an administration of unqualified failson assholes who rode a gondola upward their entire lives because of the wealth and status of their forebearers. Tarring and feathering needs to make a comeback.
They’re going to purge all the autistic people and furries then wonder why all our tech back ends have stopped working
Would be funny if they all did a national strike
They see failing NETSEC as a good thing. Their oligarch buddies who know no national borders can just take over. Remember. Borders are only for the poors. See: Gold Card