The Host
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 creator of the critically praised reference e-book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third version.
The Senate has handed — and despatched again to the House — a invoice that may permit the Trump administration to claw again some $9 billion in beforehand authorized funding for overseas help and public broadcasting. But first, senators faraway from the invoice a request to chop funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, President George W. Bush’s worldwide AIDS/HIV program. The House has till Friday to approve the invoice, or else the funding stays in place.
Meanwhile, a federal appeals courtroom has dominated that West Virginia can ban the abortion tablet mifepristone regardless of its approval by the Food and Drug Administration. If the ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, it might permit states to restrict entry to different FDA-approved medication.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Shefali Luthra of The nineteenth, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.
Panelists
Joanne Kenen
Johns Hopkins University and Politico
Shefali Luthra
The nineteenth
Sandhya Raman
CQ Roll Call
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
The Senate authorized the Trump administration’s cuts to overseas help and public broadcasting, a outstanding yielding of congressional spending energy to the president. Before the vote, Senate GOP leaders eliminated President Donald Trump’s request to chop PEPFAR, sparing the funding for that international well being effort, which has help from each events.
Next Congress might want to move annual appropriations payments to maintain the federal government funded, however that’s anticipated to be a much bigger problem than the current spending fights. Appropriations payments want 60 votes to move within the Senate, that means Republican leaders must make bipartisan compromises. House leaders are already delaying well being spending payments till the autumn, saying they want extra time to work out offers — and people payments have a tendency to draw culture-war points that make it tough to barter throughout the aisle.
The Trump administration is planning to destroy — fairly than distribute — meals, medical provides, contraceptives, and different objects supposed for overseas help. The plan follows the elimination of employees and dismantling of help infrastructure all over the world, however the waste of wanted items the U.S. authorities has already bought is anticipated to additional erode international belief.
And quickly after the passage of Trump’s tax and spending legislation, a minimum of one Republican is proposing to reverse the cuts the social gathering authorized to well being packages — particularly Medicaid. It’s hardly the primary time lawmakers have tried to alter course on their very own insurance policies, although time will inform whether or not it’s sufficient to mitigate any political (or precise) injury from the legislation.
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: The New York Times’ “UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics,” by David Enrich.
Joanne Kenen: The New Yorker’s “Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases — Using Drugs We Already Have?” by Dhruv Khullar.
Shefali Luthra: The New York Times’ “Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn’t True,” by Apoorva Mandavilli.
Sandhya Raman: The Nation’s “‘We’re Creating Miscarriages With Medicine’: Abortion Lessons from Sweden,” by Cecilia Nowell.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
Credits
Francis Ying
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
Editor
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