The Senate saves Pepfar Financing – For Now – KFF Health News

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The Senate has passed on a bill – and sent back to the house with which the Trump administration would reclaim around $ 9 billion in previously approved financing for foreign aid and public broadcaster. But first, senators from the bill removed a request to reduce the financing for the Emergency Plan of the President for AIDS exemption, the international AIDS/HIV program of President George W. Bush. The house has until Friday to approve the bill, otherwise the financing will remain in place.

In the meantime, a Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that West Virginia can prohibit the Abortus Pil Mifepristone despite the approval by the Food and Drug Administration. If the ruling is confirmed by the Supreme Court, this states can allow access to other drugs approved by the FDA.

This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Shefali Luthra of the 19th, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.

Under the collection restaurants from this week’s episode:

• The Senate approved the cuts of the Trump administration for foreign aid and public broadcasts, a remarkable yield of congress spending power to the president. Before the vote, the Senate Gop -leaders removed President Donald Trump’s request to cut Pepfar, which saves the financing for that global health effort, which has support from both parties.
• The following congress will have to pass the accounts of annual loans to keep the government financed, but that is expected to be a greater challenge than the recent spending fights. Credits accounts need 60 votes to pass in the Senate, which means that Republican leaders have to make two -part compromises. House leaders delay all the bills for health expenditure and say that they need more time to work out deals and those accounts tend to attract cultural war issues that make it difficult to negotiate on the aisle.
• The Trump administration is planning to destroy food, medical supplies, contraceptives and other items and other items intended for foreign help. The plan follows the removal of employees and dismantling auxiliary infrastructure all over the world, but the waste of the required goods that the US government has already purchased is expected that the Global Trust will be eroded further.
• And shortly after the approval of Trump’s tax and spending law, at least one Republican proposes to reverse the cuts that the party has approved for health programs – in particular Medicaid. It is hardly the first time that legislators try to change course about their own policy, although the time will tell whether it is sufficient to reduce political (or actual) damage due to the law.

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 UnitedHealth campaign for quiet critics”By David Enrich.

Joanne by Wie: The New Yorker’s “Can AI find healings for untreatable diseases – with the help of medicines that we already have?”By Dhruv Khullar.

Shefali Luthra: The New York Times ”Trump Official accused Pepfar of financing abortions in Russia. It was not true”By Apoorva Mandavilli.

Sandhya Raman: The land “‘We create miscarriages with medicines’: abortion lessons from Sweden”By Cecilia Nowell.

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