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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has appointed eight new members to the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), an influential panel that determines which preventive health services, such as colonoscopies, insurers must cover. Doctors have raised concerns that many of the new appointees are specialists rather than experts in general or preventive medicine, marking a departure from the panel's traditional composition. Critics warn the shift could alter which screenings and preventive treatments receive insurance coverage nationwide, potentially affecting millions of patients' access to care.