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Julie Rovner
KFF Well being Information
Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Well being Information’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Well being?” A famous professional on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference ebook “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
Congress is working out of time to avert an enormous enhance in well being care premium funds for tens of millions of People who purchase insurance coverage via the Inexpensive Care Act marketplaces. Dec. 15 is the deadline to join protection that begins Jan. 1, and a few customers are ready to see whether or not the credit will probably be prolonged, enabling them to afford protection subsequent yr.
In the meantime, a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted final week to finish the common suggestion for a hepatitis B vaccine dose at start. It’s simply the beginning of what are anticipated to be main adjustments in childhood vaccine suggestions total.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Anna Edney of Bloomberg Information, Maya Goldman of Axios, and Sheryl Homosexual Stolberg of The New York Instances.
Panelists
Anna Edney
Bloomberg Information
Maya Goldman
Axios
Sheryl Homosexual Stolberg
The New York Instances
Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
- As of Thursday morning, the Senate was getting ready to vote on competing well being proposals, neither of which was anticipated to cross: one, from Democrats, that will prolong the improved ACA premium tax credit and a second, from Republicans, that will as a substitute add cash to well being financial savings accounts for some ACA enrollees. With the credit set to run out and time working out to join plans, it’s possible that protection will probably be unaffordable for some People, leaving them uninsured.
- The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ determination to finish its suggestion that newborns be immunized in opposition to hepatitis B is a significant growth within the federal authorities’s shift away from selling vaccines. Whereas the panel coalesced across the declare that infants are most definitely to contract hepatitis B from their moms, the fact is that the virus can reside on home items, posing a risk of continual illness and loss of life to unvaccinated kids.
- In reproductive well being information, Home Speaker Mike Johnson eliminated insurance coverage protection of fertility therapy for service members from the Nationwide Protection Authorization Act earlier than the laws’s passage, and anti-abortion teams are calling for the firing of Meals and Drug Administration head Marty Makary over reviews he’s slow-walking coverage adjustments on remedy abortion.
Additionally this week, Rovner interviews Georgetown College professor Linda Blumberg about what the GOP’s well being plans have in frequent.
Plus, for “further credit score” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn (or wrote) this week that they assume you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The Washington Submit’s “Rural America Depends on International Medical doctors. Trump’s Visa Price Shuts Them Out,” by David Ovalle.
Anna Edney: Bloomberg Information’ “Abbott Fired a Warning Shot on Child System — Then Launched a Lobbying Blitz,” by Anna Edney.
Sheryl Homosexual Stolberg: The New York Instances’ “The Married Scientists Torn Aside by a Covid Bioweapon Principle,” by Katie J.M. Baker.
Maya Goldman: ProPublica’s “These Well being Facilities Are Imagined to Make Care Inexpensive. One Has Sued Sufferers for as Little as $59 in Unpaid Payments,” by Aliyya Swaby.
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Emmarie Huetteman
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