Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has taken administrative action to block public input on health policy matters and rulemaking.

The action ends roughly 50 years of allowing the rulemaking process by the department to include public comments, reported The Hill. It’s a complicated interpretation of apparent intent of the the government’s Administrative Procedure Act.

The APA was designed to restrict public comments for some government actions. But that was countered by an exemption from the early ’70s known as the Richardson Waiver that says it is permissible for the public to offer input on government decisions. Secretary Kennedy’s decision ends HHS following that long standing waiver.

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