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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 knowledgeable 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.
The House GOP’s finances proposal, which narrowly handed on Tuesday, seemingly would lead to main cuts to Medicaid, the well being program primarily for these with low incomes or who’re disabled, to assist pay for tax cuts. That units up a battle with the Senate, which handed a separate, extra modest finances proposal that features neither tax cuts nor cuts to well being applications — at the least not initially.
Meanwhile, federal courts proceed to weigh in on whether or not the Trump administration has the authority to cancel congressionally appropriated funding for federal applications and to summarily dismiss federal employees.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Shefali Luthra of The nineteenth, and Victoria Knight of Axios.
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Victoria Knight
Axios
Shefali Luthra
The nineteenth
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
This week the House permitted its finances blueprint calling, partly, for its Energy and Commerce Committee members to chop at the least $880 billion from the federal government applications they oversee, which embrace Medicaid. But the plan additionally wants Senate approval. The Senate is advancing its personal, competing blueprint, and a few GOP senators have voiced considerations concerning the penalties of Medicaid cuts.
In Supreme Court information, a brand new order from Chief Justice John Roberts permits the Trump administration to proceed to freeze international help, at the least briefly. And in an sudden transfer, the Trump administration will take the identical aspect because the Biden administration in a case earlier than the court docket relating to the Affordable Care Act. The case addresses whether or not the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force might inform insurance coverage corporations what medical companies have to be coated. But the Trump administration is arguing that the pinnacle of the Department of Health and Human Services — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — has authority over the panel and may affect determinations about protection.
President Donald Trump issued an govt order boosting his first-term efforts to press well being suppliers and insurers to disclose precise costs to sufferers. Also, within the states, main analysis universities are bracing for federal funding cuts. And an outbreak in Texas and New Mexico has led to the nation’s first measles demise in years — as Kennedy performs down the outbreak and, individually, says he’ll look at the childhood vaccination schedule.
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: WBUR’s “Canceled Meetings and Confusion: NIH Grant Funding in Limbo Despite Court Injunction,” by Anna Rubenstein.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Transmitter’s “Exclusive: NIH Appears To Archive Policy Requiring Female Animals in Studies,” by Claudia López Lloreda.
Victoria Knight: KFF Health News’ “With RFK Jr. in Charge, Supplement Makers See Chance To Cash In,” by Arthur Allen.
Shefali Luthra: NBC News’ “They Were Told To Get Extra Breast Cancer Screenings. Then They Got Stuck With the Bill,” by Gretchen Morgenson.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
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Francis Ying
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
Editor
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