{"id":25969,"date":"2026-05-14T10:02:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25969"},"modified":"2026-05-14T10:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:02:07","slug":"kff-poll-finds-that-most-adults-lack-confidence-in-key-health-agencies-to-act-independently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25969","title":{"rendered":"KFF Poll Finds That Most Adults Lack Confidence in Key Health Agencies to Act Independently"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(Authors Joel Luther, Hagere Yilma, and Irving Washington for The Kaiser Family Foundation published May 14, 2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

KFF\u2019s latest April Health Tracking Poll finds that fewer than half the public express confidence in the independence of the CDC, FDA, or EPA \u2013 government agencies that hold key responsibilities over food and drug safety and public health. Overall, four in ten or fewer adults say they have \u201ca lot\u201d or \u201csome\u201d confidence in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (40%), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) (36%), or the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (36%) to act independently without interference from outside interests. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(Authors Joel Luther, Hagere Yilma, and Irving Washington for The Kaiser Family Foundation published May 14, 2026) KFF\u2019s latest April<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,31],"tags":[72,76],"class_list":["post-25969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cdc","category-fda","tag-cdc","tag-fda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25970,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25969\/revisions\/25970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}