1. RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

HBO

Quotes from Dr. Benjamin included "When you go to a restaurant, I cannot guarantee that the food you're going to eat is safe. And if there's a foodborne outbreak, I cannot guarantee there is going to be a mechanism to come in and do the investigative work to understand how you got sick."

He also highlighted APHA's statement calling for Kennedy to resign or be fired.

2. Supreme Court hears case on preventive care under the Affordable Care Act

Scripps News

Dr. Georges Benjamin, who is the executive director of the American Public Health Association, said a ruling that favors the plaintiffs could impact tens of millions of people who rely on their health coverage for preventive care.

"It's going to impact everybody in the country," Benjamin said. "This would mean that your costs for preventive health services would go up, that in many cases you'll have to pay a co-payment or to increase your premiums. That will be very problematic, because most people don't have to pay for that right now."

3. Clinical trials face uncertain futures amid Trump cuts

ScienceNews

“The administration has decided to impose their values and their words in people’s research projects — and that’s not up to them,” says Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. The organization is among several suing NIH, declaring the mass termination of grants unlawful and demanding their restoration. Disrupting clinical trials and other biomedical research could have ripple effects for everyone, he adds. “Even though you may not have a disease, someday you may, and so you lose the potential opportunity of a cure when you do.”

4. Experts Warn Court Case Could End Life-Saving Preventive Care

Word in Black

“Expect to see more heart disease, more lung cancer, more kidney disease in communities of color,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said after a joint press briefing Thursday. If low-income patients are forced to hand over a copay for cancer screening, he says, “people will receive less care, later in the course of their disease, at a higher cost and a higher death rate.”

“It’s a shame they want to take away this service from millions of Americans,” he says, “based on this small number of people based on religious or ideological grounds.”