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Senate Democrats hope a little-used legislation from the Nineteen Nineties will assist draw consideration to the healthcare price concern by forcing a vote on the Trump administration’s current modifications to the Affordable Care Act.
Meanwhile, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is demanding data from a medical journal that retracted a research that backed Kennedy’s claims of vaccine hurt.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sheryl Gay Stolberg of The New York Times, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post.
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
As the midterm elections strategy, congressional Democrats are pushing again on newly finalized tips from the Trump administration for ACA plans. The tips permit the sale of plans with fewer advantages and greater deductibles subsequent yr, additional eroding protections designed to maintain healthcare reasonably priced. With many citizens involved about the price of care, Democrats’ push may show a potent marketing campaign message come November.
State officers in Texas and Alabama are persevering with to crack down on abortion entry. And new reporting reveals a development of ladies going to nice lengths to hunt abortion care solely to be taught that their house being pregnant take a look at outcomes have been false positives they usually’re not pregnant.
Two medical journals just lately retracted separate research that linked vaccines to dangerous well being issues, with Kennedy pushing again. And authorized motion over Kennedy’s reconstituted vaccine panel and its selections is leaving the nation with out conventional outdoors knowledgeable enter into seasonal vaccines because the flu season approaches — although the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified that Kennedy may resolve the authorized points by merely appointing consultants to the panel with vaccine backgrounds, as statute dictates.
Also this week, Rovner interviews Michael Cannon of the Cato Institute and Liz Fowler of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health about their joint effort pushing for the elimination of the employer medical insurance tax exclusion. You can learn their Washington Post op-ed here.
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Plus, for “extra credit” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume it is best to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: KFF Health News’ “Trump Bought Tobacco Stocks and Raked In Industry Donations as FDA Eased Standards,” by Darius Tahir.
Sheryl Gay Stolberg: KFF Health News’ “Tennessee Pharmacies Sell Potent Ivermectin, Led by Anti-Vaccine Doctor Who’s Taken ‘Bucketloads,’” by Brett Kelman and Rachana Pradhan.
Anna Edney: Politico Magazine’s “Inside Trump’s Reversal on HIV,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein and Megan Messerly.
Lauren Weber: The Atlantic’s “AI Is Taking Over Hospitals,” by Benjamin Mazer.
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