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Julie Rovner KFF Well being Information @jrovner
Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Well being Information’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Well being?” A famous professional on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference e book “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
The way forward for the Medicaid medical health insurance program for these with low incomes is unsure, as Congress works on a finances plan calling for main cuts whereas President Donald Trump each guarantees to assist that plan in addition to to guard this system.
In the meantime, 1000’s of workers on the Division of Well being and Human Companies had been fired over the vacation weekend, whereas states with abortion bans face off in opposition to states with legal guidelines defending docs who use telemedicine to prescribe abortion capsules to residents of the previous.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins College Bloomberg Faculty of Public Well being and Politico Journal, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.
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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
- Medicaid cuts of the magnitude the Home is contemplating would decimate this system. And, because the Republican Social gathering has realigned, reducing it will affect their base. Smaller modifications across the edges — ideas like work necessities — could also be extra potential, though they haven’t proved efficient in previous experiments.
- Most of the firings at HHS have a very random really feel. In some instances, complete workplaces, a few of which had been put in place to pursue Trump priorities resembling synthetic intelligence — have been left with none workers as a result of all their workers had been “new.” In different instances, extremely recruited scientists had been let go. What’s rising as a long-term situation from these federal firings is how businesses just like the Nationwide Institutes of Well being will recruit future scientists. Job candidates are extremely educated individuals who can discover extra profitable employment within the non-public sector. The lack of brainpower, mixed with diminished federal assist for analysis, could have penalties. Areas resembling primary analysis, which isn’t a moneymaker, might endure.
- Texas and Louisiana are every looking for to prosecute a New York physician who prescribes abortion medicine through telemedicine. The governor of New York has vowed to guard such docs underneath the state’s “defend regulation.” However the final resolution of which state regulation prevails will doubtless be made by the Supreme Court docket.
Plus, for “further credit score,” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you need to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: KFF Well being Information’ “Ache Clinics Made Tens of millions From ‘Pointless’ Injections Into ‘Human Pin Cushions'” by Brett Kelman.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Washington Put up’s “U.S. Reverses Plan To Shut Down Free Covid Check Program,” by Lena H. Solar and Carolyn Y. Johnson.
Joanne Kenen: Wired’s “The Ketamine-Fueled ‘Psychedelic Slumber Events’ That Get Tech Execs Again on Observe,” by Elana Klein.
Sarah Karlin-Smith: Fortune’s “The Dietary Dietary supplements You Suppose Are Enhancing Your Well being Might Be Damaging Your Liver, Analysis Warns,” by Lindsey Leake.
Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:
- The Transmitter’s “Federal Register Maintain Makes ‘Finish Run’ Round Court docket Pause on NIH Funding Freeze,” by Angie Voyles Askham.
- Politico’s “Republicans Might Discover It Tougher To Lower Medicaid Than They Suppose,” by Joanne Kenen.
- Stat’s “Drug Inspectors, AI Consultants, Maternal Well being Employees: Trump’s Well being Company Cuts Are Far-Reaching,” by Helen Branswell.
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- Francis Ying Audio producer
- Stephanie Stapleton Editor
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