The resolution would create a task force consisting of eight lawmakers, six from the majority party and two from the minority, which would work with department leaders and commissions to align state priorities with those laid out in the so-called MAHA agenda.
The resolution sponsor, Sen. Shelley Funke Frommeyer, began a long list of to-do items for the task force with these:
"We recognize that Kentucky's efforts will want to reevaluate Medicaid drug approvals. We want to scrutinize drugs like Ozempic and propose a thorough review of Medicaid's approval process to ensure that the high-cost or forever medications like Ozempic are only used when truly necessary," she said. "We want to promote preventative and alternative therapies. We want to encourage the adoption of less invasive, more holistic treatments for conditions."
Frommeyer also wants to revamp medical and dental curricula, develop new certification programs and integrated medicine, along with a number of other goals — all with the stated purpose of getting to the "root causes" of illness.
While the measure sailed through committee without opposition, national health experts have expressed concerns about the movement led by now-U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., — worrying it seeks to challenge proven treatments, especially with regard to vaccines. Frommeyer is among those backing a bill that bars the administration of any mRNA vaccine, including COVID nineteen vaccines, to anyone 18.
The MAHA-styled task force joins a separate proposal that would create a Kentucky initiative mirroring the controversial Department of Government Efficiency known as DOGE.