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Julie Rovner
KFF Health News
Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Health?” A famous professional on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference ebook “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third version.
Health care won’t have been the most important situation within the marketing campaign, however the return of Donald Trump to the presidency is prone to have a seismic impression on well being coverage over the following 4 years.
Changes to the Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and the nation’s public well being infrastructure are doubtless on the agenda. But how far Trump goes will rely largely on who staffs key well being coverage roles and on whether or not Democrats take a majority within the U.S. House, the place a number of races stay uncalled.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.
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Rachel Cohrs Zhang
Stat News
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
As of Friday morning, it remained unclear which celebration will management the House subsequent 12 months. A Democratic-controlled House would provide a test in opposition to Republican coverage modifications and a few management of key authorities oversight committees. A Republican House would give the celebration full management of Congress and the presidency. Either means, the celebration in management could have a slim majority.
Majorities of voters in eight states voted to guard abortion rights — although the poll measures handed in solely seven states. (More than half of voters in Florida voted for the abortion rights measure, however the state requires at the very least 60% help for poll measures to move.)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — now a key voice within the Trump transition staff — is telegraphing massive plans for well being coverage. Who leads to Trump’s Cabinet will make a distinction, because the president-elect is seemingly outsourcing a lot of his well being coverage planning in favor of specializing in points such because the economic system, immigration, and commerce.
And conservative appointees all through the judicial system are prone to stay pleasant to Trump administration causes, which might open the door to extra challenges to federal insurance policies. Several essential authorized challenges are already winding by way of the courts.
Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Jackie Fortiér, who reported and wrote the most recent KFF Health News-Washington Post “Bill of the Month” function, a few 2-year outdated who had an costly run-in with a rattlesnake. Do you may have a medical invoice that’s exorbitant, baffling, infuriating, or the entire above? Tell us about it!
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they suppose you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: KFF Health News’ “Dentists Are Pulling ‘Healthy’ and Treatable Teeth to Profit From Implants, Experts Warn,” by Brett Kelman and Anna Werner of CBS News.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Politico’s “The Election’s Stakes for Global Health,” by Carmen Paun.
Rachel Cohrs Zhang: KFF Health News’ “As Nuns Disappear, Many Catholic Hospitals Look More Like Megacorporations,” by Samantha Liss.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
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Zach Dyer
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
Editor
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