President Donald Trump’s former New York physician says Trump’s lawyer and personal head of safety “raided” his workplace and took the medical recordsdata regarding Trump, an act described by White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as “standard operating procedure.” Except that’s not how the federal well being privateness regulation is meant to work.
Meanwhile, Seema Verma, who heads the federal company accountable for Medicare and Medicaid, met with reporters for a wide-ranging discussion of states’ efforts to remake their Medicaid packages and the administration’s objectives of encouraging individuals to work to assist carry them out of poverty.
Plus, Robert Blendon, a professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and its T.H. Chan School of Public Health, talks about how well being points match into the complicated politics of the 2018 midterm elections.
This week’s panelists for KHN’s “What the Health?” are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Joanne Kenen of Politico, Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times.
Among the takeaways from this week’s podcast:
Five states are in search of permission from federal officers to impose a lifetime restrict on Medicaid eligibility. But regardless of the numerous modifications the Trump administration officers have been making to Medicaid, they’ve proven no public curiosity on this but. Trump is contemplating laws that may defund Planned Parenthood from the Title X Family Planning Program. Although anti-abortion teams would applaud such a transfer, it might backfire on the Republicans in November by energizing a wave of blue voters within the midterm elections. Although former HHS Secretary Tom Price raised eyebrows this week together with his remark disparaging the elimination of the penalty for not having insurance coverage, that stance is considerably in step with the administration’s earlier promise to search out new methods to control the insurance coverage markets.
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists suggest their favourite well being tales of the week they assume it’s best to learn, too.
Julie Rovner: Kaiser Health News’ “Peak Health Plan Premiums Give Rise To Activism – And Unconventional Solutions,” by Rachel Bluth
Joanne Kenen: The New York Times’ “Injecting Drugs Can Ruin a Heart. How Many Second Chances Should a User Get?” by Abby Goodnough
Alice Ollstein: The Commonwealth Fund’s “First Look at Health Insurance Coverage in 2018 Finds ACA Gain Beginning to Reverse,” by Sara R. Collins, Munira Z. Gunja, Michelle M. Doty and Herman Okay. Bhupal
Margot Sanger-Katz: Politico’s “Who the Hell Is This Person? Trump’s Mar-A-Lago Pal Stymies VA Project,” by Arthur Allen
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