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Read the stories of Julie. Julie Rovner is Chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ Weekly Health Policy News Podcast, “What the Health?” Julie is a well -known expert in the field of health policy issues and is the author of the critically praised reference book ‘Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z’, now in the third edition.
Much of the crowds in health care is this year aimed at Medicaid, which is confronted with a dramatically reduced federal financing as a result of the enormous budget law signed by President Donald Trump earlier this month. But now focuses on the affordable care act, which is confronted with some major changes that many consumers can cost their health coverage as soon as 2026.
In the meantime, changes in the immigration policy under Trump can have a major impact on the health care system of the nation, both by worsening shortages of health workers and by eliminating insurance coverage that helps to keep some hospitals and clinics standing.
This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Julie Appleby from KFF Health News, Jessie Hellmann from CQ Roll Call and Alice Miranda Ollstein from Polico.
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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:
- Many Americans can expect that their premiums for health insurance will rise next year, but those tariff increases can be even greater for the millions that depend on ACA health plans. In order to pay such plans, most consumers trust improved federal government subsidies, which are set to walk down – and Gop -legislers seem to dislike them, although many of their voters can lose their insurance.
- The congress included a $ 50 billion fund for rural health care in the new law of Trump, with the aim of dampening the blow of Medicaid cuts. But the fund is expected to fail, especially since many people lose their health insurance and clinics, hospitals and health systems will be left to cover their accounts.
- Abortus opponents continue to claim that the abortion pill Mifepristone is unsafe, more recently by quoting a problematic analysis – and some legislators use it to put federal officers under pressure to view a look at the approval of the medicine. In the meantime, many planned parental clinics are bracing to an end to federal financing, where money is not only disconnected from busy clinics where abortion is legally, but also of clinics that only offer contraception, test for sexually transmitted infections and other non-abortion care in states where the procedure is banned.
- And as more states implement laws so that doctors can unsubscribe from treatments that violate their morality, a pregnant woman in Tennessee says that her doctor refused to offer prenatal care because she is unmarried.
Also this week, Rovner Jonathan Oberlander, a Medicare historian and professor at the University of North Carolina, interviews to mark the 60 -year anniversary of Medicare later this month.
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: KFF Health News ” Republicans call Medicaid full of fraudsters. This man sees no choice but to break the rules’, by Katheryn Houghton.
Julie Appleby: NPRs “Many beauty products have toxic ingredients. New proposed accounts can change that’By Rachel Treisman.
Jessie Hellmann: Roll calls “Kennedy’s skepticism for mental health care lands on the FDA panel”By Ariel Cohen.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Associated Press’ “RFK Jr. Has promoted a food company that, according to him, will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultra -proced’By Amanda Seits and Jonel Aleccia.
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