Trump’s Bill reaches the finish line – KFF Health News

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At the beginning of Thursday afternoon, the house approved a budget consent account that would not only make much of the tax cuts of President Donald Trump permanently, but also imposes deep cuts on Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and, indirectly, Medicare.

In the meantime, those appointed by health and human service secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. An important vaccine tranel their first official meeting to doubt a preservative that has been used in flu vaccines for decades – with studies that do not show any evidence for its damage in low doses.

This week’s panel members are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein from Polico, Maya Goldman of Axios and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the pink sheet.

Under the collection restaurants from this week’s episode:

• This week the Gop steamed in the direction of a large narrowing of the social safety net of the nation and pushed through the tax and expenditure account of Trump. The legislation contains important changes in the way in which Medicaid is financed and supplied – in particular by imposing the first federal work requirement of the program to many registered persons. Hospitals say that the changes would be devastating, which may result in the loss of services and facilities that all patients could touch, not just those on Medicaid.
• Some proposals in Trump’s bill were dropped during the consideration of the Senate, including a ban on medicoid coverage for gender-confirming care and federal financing reductions for states that use their own Medicid funds to cover immigrants without legal status. And for all the talk about not touching Medicare, the repercussions of legislation for the shortage of cuts on the program will cause it to cover more than 65 and some with a disability – possibly as soon as the next tax year.
• The newly reconstituted advisory committee for immunization practices met last week, and it looked pretty different from previous meetings: In addition to new members, there were fewer staff members at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – and the remarkable presence of vaccincriticians. The mood of the panel to revise the recommendation of flu shots that contain a mercury-based preservative-plus to revise the vaccine schedule in children, points to what is to come.

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 Lancet’s “Evaluation of the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defundering on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecast analysis”By Daniella Mediros Cavalcanti, et al.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: The New York Times ”’I feel that I was lying against’: when an outbreak of measles comes home”By Eli Saslow.

Maya Goldman: Axios’ “New documents are trained in old diseases when the vax rates are falling”Tina drove.

Sarah Karlin-Smith: Wired’s “Snake venom, urine and a search to live forever: encouraged by Maha in a biohacking conference encouraged by Maha”By Will Bahr.

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