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This week, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the law of Tennessee that prohibited the most gender-confirming care for minors-a law that is comparable to those in two dozen other states.

In the meantime, the Senate still hopes to complete the work on his version of President Donald Trump’s enormous budget tuning before the fourth break of July. But deeper cuts on the Medicaid program than those included in the bill in the house can be difficult to swallow for moderate senators.

This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Victoria Knight of Axios, Alice Miranda Ollstein from Policro and Sandhya Raman from CQ Roll Call.

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Sandhya Raman or Roll Call

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Under the collection restaurants from this week’s episode:

• The pronunciation of the Supreme Court on gender -confirming care for transgender minors was relatively limited in his scope. The majority did not answer the broader question of whether transgender individuals are protected under federal anti-discrimination laws and, as with the decision of the court that destroys the constitutional right to an abortion, the Links sets the authority to determine which care transjunctions can receive.
• The Senate Gop has unveiled its version of the Budget Reconciliation Bill this week. The expectations that senators would prove the impact of the bill on health care would make the proposal deeper cuts on Medicaid, largely at the expense of hospitals and other providers. Republican senators say that these cutbacks would give them more flexibility to renew and expand many of Trump’s tax cuts.
• The Medicare managers are out this week with a new prediction for the program that mainly relates to those older than 65, with insolvency being predicted by 2033 – even earlier than expected. There was dual support for incorporating a harsh action against a provider practice that is known as upcoding in the Reconciliation Bill, a movement that could have saved a bundle in government spending. But no substantive cuts on Medicare outputs eventually entered the legislation.
• With the third anniversary of the decision of the Supreme Court over Roe v. Wade The movement is approaching to terminate abortion largely merged around one goal: to stop people gaining access to the Mifepristone abortion pill.

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 ”The bureaucrat and the billionaire: within Doge’s chaotic acquisition of social security‘By Alexandra Berzon, Nicholas Nehamas and Tara Siegel Bernard.

Victoria Knight: The New York Times ”They asked an AI chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiral -shaped‘By Kashmir Hill.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: Wired’s “Do some tear gas and rubber bullets with the human body‘By Emily Mullin.

Sandhya Raman: North Carolina Health News and the Charlotte Ledger’s “Ambulance companies collect millions by grabbing wages, the state tax payments“By Michelle Crouch.

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