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Julie Rovner
KFF Well being Information
Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Well being Information’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Well being?” A famous skilled on well being coverage points, Julie is the creator of the critically praised reference ebook “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
The Supreme Court docket this week dominated in favor of Tennessee’s legislation banning most gender-affirming look after minors — a legislation just like these in two dozen different states.
In the meantime, the Senate continues to be hoping to finish work on its model of President Donald Trump’s enormous finances reconciliation invoice earlier than the July Fourth break. However deeper cuts to the Medicaid program than these included within the Home-passed invoice might show troublesome to swallow for reasonable senators.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Victoria Knight of Axios, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Name.
Panelists
Victoria Knight
Axios
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Sandhya Raman
CQ Roll Name
Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
- The Supreme Court docket’s ruling on gender-affirming look after transgender minors was comparatively restricted in its scope. The bulk didn’t tackle the broader query about whether or not transgender people are protected below federal anti-discrimination legal guidelines and, as with the courtroom’s determination overturning the constitutional proper to an abortion, left states the facility to find out what care trans youths might obtain.
- The Senate GOP unveiled its model of the finances reconciliation invoice this week. Defying expectations that senators would soften the invoice’s influence on well being care, the proposal would make deeper cuts to Medicaid, largely on the expense of hospitals and different suppliers. Republican senators say these cuts would enable them extra flexibility to resume and lengthen a lot of Trump’s tax cuts.
- The Medicare trustees are out this week with a brand new forecast for this system that covers primarily these over age 65, predicting insolvency by 2033 — even before anticipated. There was bipartisan help for together with a crackdown on a supplier follow referred to as upcoding within the reconciliation invoice, a transfer that would have saved a bundle in authorities spending. However no substantive cuts to Medicare spending finally made it into the laws.
- With the third anniversary of the Supreme Court docket determination overturning Roe v. Wade approaching, the motion to finish abortion has largely coalesced round one aim: stopping individuals from accessing the abortion capsule mifepristone.
Plus, for “additional credit score,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they suppose it is best to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The New York Instances’ “The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Safety,” by Alexandra Berzon, Nicholas Nehamas, and Tara Siegel Bernard.
Victoria Knight: The New York Instances’ “They Requested an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Solutions Despatched Them Spiraling,” by Kashmir Hill.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Wired’s “What Tear Fuel and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Physique,” by Emily Mullin.
Sandhya Raman: North Carolina Well being Information and The Charlotte Ledger’s “Ambulance Firms Accumulate Thousands and thousands by Seizing Wages, State Tax Refunds,” by Michelle Crouch.
Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:
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Francis Ying
Audio producer
Emmarie Huetteman
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