Richard H. Hughes, IV, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in The New York Times, in “How Kennedy’s Purge of Advisors Could Disrupt U.S. Vaccinations,” by Apoorva Mandavilli. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
With two extraordinary moves, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has upended the certainty that American children will always have cost-free access to lifesaving vaccines. …
Richard H. Hughes IV, who teaches law at George Washington University, predicted that the new committee would move to pare back the childhood vaccine schedule “relatively quickly.” …
The panel could take a more measured approach, perhaps advising that a doctor’s sign-off should be required for some immunizations. The vaccines program would still cover it, but reimbursement from private insurers would be more difficult to enforce, Mr. Hughes said.
