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With just one voice to save, the house has approved a controversial budget law with billions of dollars in tax reductions for the rich, along with billions of dollars in a cutbacks on Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and the Food Stamp program – most of which influence those on the bottom of the incomes scale. But the bill stands for an uncertain future in the Senate.
Meanwhile, Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has Jr. Van Health and Human Services released a report from his committee to ‘make America healthy again’ that described threats to the health of the American public – but in particular nothing included about threats of tobacco, violence or a lack of health insurance.
This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Anna Edney van Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of The Pink Sheet and Alice Miranda Ollstein from Poloo.
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Under the collection restaurants from this week’s episode:
- Huis republicans adopted their “large, beautiful” Bill 215-214 this week, with one Republican critic who was present. But the Senate may have its own “big, beautiful” rewriting. Some conservative senators who are concerned about the federal debts are concerned that the bill was not fully paid and would contribute to the budget deficit. Others, including some reputing republicans, say that the cuts from the bill to Medicaid and the food aid would go too far and would harm Americans with a low income. The cutbacks of the bill would be the largest reductions of Medicaid in the 60-year history of the program.
- Many of the medicaid cuts of the account would arise from the addition of work requirements. Most people who get Medicaid already work, but such requirements in Arkansas and Georgia show that people often lose coverage under these rules because they have problems documenting their working hours, including because of technological problems. The non -party -bound Congressional Budget Office estimated that an earlier version of the bill would reduce the number of people with Medicaid by at least 8.6 million for ten years. The requirements can also add a burden for employers. The work requirements of the bill are relatively broad and would affect people who are 19 to 64 years old.
- People whose medicaid coverage has been canceled would no longer be eligible for ACA subsidies for market plans. Medicare would also be affected, because the bill is expected to be activated an over-the-sign Sekwestration.
- The bill would also affect abortion by forbidding it effectively in ACA market plans, which would disrupt a compromise in the 2010 law. And the bill would block the financing for Planned Parenthood in Medicaid, although that federal money is used for other care such as cancer investigations, no abortions. In the past, the Senate parliamentarian said that a kind of provision is not permitted according to the budget rules, but some Republicans want to take the unusual step to ignore the parliamentarian.
- This week FDA leaders COVID-19 have released vaccine recommendations in a medical magazine. They are planning to limit future access to the vaccines to people aged 65 and older and others who are at high risk of serious illness if they are infected, and they want to oblige manufacturers to do further clinical examinations to show whether the vaccines will benefit healthy young people. There are questions whether this is legal, which products would be influenced, if this would come into effect and whether it is ethical to require these studies.
- HHS has released a report on chronic diseases from childhood. The report contains not many new findings, but is partly remarkable because of what it does not discuss – rifle, the most important cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States; tobacco; the lack of health insurance; And socio -economic factors that influence access to healthy food.
Also this week, Rovner University of California -Davis School of Law Professor and abortion historian Mary Ziegler interviews about her new book about the past and the future of the “personality” movement aimed at granting legal rights to fetuses and embryos.
Moreover, the panel members suggest the stories about health policy they read this week for ‘extra credit’, they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: The Washington Post’s “White House officials wanted to place federal employees in trauma. ‘It works“By William Wan and Hannah Natanson.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: NPRs “Diseases spread. The CDC does not warn the audience as it was months ago‘By Chiara Eisner.
Anna Edney: Bloomberg News’ “The potential cancer, health risks in one popular OTC Medicijn“By Anna Edney.
Sarah Karlin-Smith: The Farmingdale Observer’s’Scientists have been studying work at a distance for four years and have drawn a very clear conclusion: ‘Working from home makes us happier’,“By Bob Rubila.
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