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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 creator of the critically praised reference ebook “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third version.
Democrats and Republicans are each going through potential political penalties of their persevering with standoff over federal authorities funding. Republicans are prone to face a voter backlash in the event that they refuse to comply with Democrats’ calls for that they renew further tax credit for Affordable Care Act market plans, because the majority of these going through premium hikes dwell in GOP-dominated states. For their half, Democrats are apprehensive that Republicans will violate the phrases of any potential spending deal.
At the identical time, the Trump administration is utilizing the shutdown to attempt to lay off hundreds of federal employees, together with these performing key public well being roles on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post.
Panelists
Anna Edney
Bloomberg News
Joanne Kenen
Johns Hopkins University and Politico
Lauren Weber
The Washington Post
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
As the federal authorities shutdown drags on, there was little progress towards a deal on authorities spending — or on the expiring ACA market subsidies Democrats are preventing to resume. Potential subsidy compromises might, for example, implement a minimal premium rather than $0 premiums, to cut back enrollment fraud, as Republicans need.
A federal choose halted the Trump administration’s newest layoffs of federal employees amid questions in regards to the layoffs’ legality. The administration particularly dealt a heavy blow this spherical to the CDC, an company that has been battered by employees reductions, coverage shifts, and even violence.
New reporting exhibits the Trump administration explored the feasibility of tracing abortion tablet residue in wastewater, following up on an anti-abortion declare that the medication could also be contaminating the water provide. Yet advocates might have an ulterior motive: creating the power to hint use of the tablet to additional crack down on abortions.
And President Donald Trump unveiled a take care of a second drugmaker, AstraZeneca, that permits the corporate to keep away from tariffs in alternate for constructing a brand new U.S. facility. But as with the primary deal, it’s unclear how a lot cash the settlement will save sufferers.
Also this week, Rovner interviews medical insurance analyst Louise Norris of Medicareresources.org in regards to the Medicare open enrollment interval, which started Oct. 15.
Plus, for “extra credit” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: Politico’s “RFK Jr.’s Got Advice for Pregnant Women. There’s Limited Data To Support It,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
Anna Edney: The New York Times’ “The Drug That Took Away More Than Her Appetite,” by Maia Szalavitz.
Joanne Kenen: Mother Jones’ “From Medicine to Mysticism: The Radicalization of Florida’s Top Doc,” by Kiera Butler and Julianne McShane.
Lauren Weber: KFF Health News’ “Senators Press Deloitte, Other Contractors on Errors in Medicaid Eligibility Systems,” by Rachana Pradhan and Samantha Liss.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
Credits
Francis Ying
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
Editor
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