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After the entire night, two important house committees approved the GOP budget legislation that would cut hundreds of billions of dollars from federal health programs in the coming decade, usually from the Medicaid program for people with a low income or a disability. However, the legislation is far from a foregone conclusion, with at least one republican senator who spends opposition against Medicaid cuts.
In the meantime, the Secretary of Health and the Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. For the first time since he took office for the first time since he took office. In sometimes surprisingly combative exchanges with legislators in the house and the Senate, Kennedy denied cutting programs despite the proof of the opposite and said at some point that he does not think that Americans should “follow medical advice from me.”
This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Julie Appleby from KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health and Polico Magazine and Alice Miranda Ollstein from Politico.
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Julie Appleby Kff Health News
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Alice Miranda Ollstein Political
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Under the collection restaurants from this week’s episode:
- Huis republicans released this week – then quickly led by the Commission – great legislation that would make deep cuts on federal expenditure, while the domestic priorities of President Donald Trump are financing the renewal of tax cuts and stimulating border security. A provisional estimate of the Congressional Budget Office showed that the bill would lower at least $ 715 billion of federal health expenditure for 10 years – with the majority of that money from the Medicaid program.
- In general, the house Gop’s proposal would make it harder to register and remain registered, in the coverage of Medicaid and Affordable Care Act. Among other things, the bill would impose a requirement that non -disabled adults (with a few exceptions) work, do volunteer work or study at least 80 hours per month to be eligible for coverage. But Democrats and proponents of the patient point to evidence that, instead of stimulating the work, such a mandate leads to more people losing the coverage or dropping them under difficult paperwork requirements.
- Republicans also refused to expand the improved tax credits introduced during the COVID-19 Pandemie that help many people to offer themselves the ACA market site coverage. Those tax credits expire at the end of the year, and premiums are expected to do not extend their coverage to many people.
- And Kennedy’s performances on Capitol Hill This week, the congress offered the first opportunity to question the health secretary because he accepted his position. He was grilled by Democrats about vaccines, congress allocated funds, bright from agencies and much more.
Moreover, the panel members suggest the stories about health policy they read this week for ‘extra credit’ that they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: The New York Times ”Elizabeth Holmes’ partner has a new start-up of blood tests“By Rob Copeland.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Propublicas “He became the face of the required Medicaid -Work requirement of Georgia. Now he’s tired of it.“By Margaret Coker, the current one.
Julie Appleby: Scientific American’s “How the cuts of the National Weer Service of Trump can cost lives‘By Andrea Thompson.
Joanne by Wie: The Atlantic Ocean “This is not the time to eat that lettuce“By Nicholas Florko.
Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:
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