Kennedy, Oz announce new health care advisory committee

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced the formation of an 18-member Healthcare Advisory Committee to recommend ways to modernize the U.S. health care system. The panel will advise Kennedy as he oversees the Trump administration's health care policy agenda. Kennedy, a longtime critic of pharmaceutical industry practices and vaccine mandates, has broad authority over Medicare, Medicaid, and public health matters in his cabinet role. The advisory committee represents an effort to bring outside expertise into HHS decision-making on a health system that covers roughly 150 million Americans through Medicare and Medicaid alone. The initiative signals the administration's intent to reshape health care delivery and policy during Trump's second term.