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Our full enjoyment of the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness largely depends on another right: to have access to good, affordable health care.

But that right is under fire from a federal administration hellbent on swapping fringe quackery for well-established medical science.

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The encouraging news is that New York and some other states are fighting back.

In a far-reaching assault on health care, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has spent years promoting junk science to cast doubt on the safety and efficacy of vaccines, is using his powerful position to act on his debunked theories. After Mr. Kennedy in June fired all the health experts on a vaccine advisory committee and replaced them with his own picks, the Food and Drug Administration issued new........

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