President Donald Trump managed to meet — a minimum of partly — two separate marketing campaign guarantees this week.
To the delight of anti-abortion teams, the administration issued proposed guidelines that will make it troublesome if not unimaginable for Planned Parenthood to proceed to take part in Title X, the federal family-planning program. And Congress cleared for Trump’s signature a “right-to-try” invoice geared toward making it simpler for sufferers with terminal sicknesses to acquire experimental drugs.
Also this week, the National Center for Health Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office issued reviews about Americans both with and without health insurance and the cost of subsidizing health insurance to the federal authorities.
And May’s “Bill of the Month” installment options some very costly orthopedic screws.
This week’s panelists for KHN’s “What the Health?” are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Sarah Kliff of Politico and Alice Ollstein of Talking Points Memo.
Among the takeaways from this week’s podcast:
The Trump administration’s proposed rule to chop Title X reproductive well being funding for teams that carry out abortions was designed to fulfill calls for from the president’s non secular supporters, however it might backfire by mobilizing liberal voters. The modifications being thought of may also open the door for some religious-based teams that don’t assist abortion — or even perhaps contraception — to get federal Title X funding. Conservatives’ marketing campaign to get a “right-to-try” invoice by way of Congress has been pushed largely by particular person affected person tales. New information launched by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week reveals the uninsured charge didn’t develop in 2017, regardless of a lot of modifications that the Trump administration made to and federal promotion of it.
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists advocate their favourite well being tales of the week they suppose you need to learn, too.
Julie Rovner: Kaiser Health News’ “When Is Insurance Not Really Insurance? When You Need Pricey Dental Care,” by David Tuller
Margot Sanger-Katz: The New York Times’ “New Cancer Treatments Lie Hidden Under Mountains of Paperwork,” by Gina Kolata
Sarah Kliff: Vox.com’s “He Went to an In-Network Emergency Room. He Still Ended Up With a $7,924 Bill,” by Sarah Kliff
Alice Ollstein: AP’s “AP Interview: Unemployment Exemption Gone From Medicaid Bill,” by David Eggert
And: Talking Points Memo’s “Trump Admin Poised To Give Rural Whites A Carve-Out On Medicaid Work Rules,” by Alice Ollstein
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