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Julie Rovner is the chief correspondent of Washington and host of the weekly podcast of Kff Health News health policy, “What is health?” Expert noted on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the reference book produced by criticism “Health care policy and policy A in Z”, now in its third edition.
Can the Trump administration refuse to spend money appropriate by the Congress in dismissing federal workers and announcing existing contracts? And if the courts say he cannot, will the administration obey these directives? This key confrontation was getting closer this week while the Supreme Court weighed, suggesting that the federal government could not refuse to pay the services already provided.
Meanwhile, the epidemic of measles that started in Texas continues to develop, while the Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a long-standing anti-Vaccin activist, offers less in the groove of the vaccine which has long verified the spread of measles in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States in the United States
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner by Kff Health News, Stephanie Armor of Kff Health News, Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health and Politico, and Lauren Weber from Washington Post.
This week also, Rovner Interview Sandy West, who reported and wrote the latest functionality of Kff Health News “Bill of the MONTH”, on a runner struck by a car – then by a very expensive ambulance bill.
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Stephanie Armor Kff Health News
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Joanne Kenen Johns Hopkins and Politico University
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Lauren Weber the Washington Post
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Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:
- The Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration attempt to continue its freeze on foreign aid. A notable lesson in the administration’s efforts to close the American international development agency is that health spending abroad not only supports foreign communities, but also help protect Americans from infectious diseases.
- Meanwhile, Jay Bhattacharya, the choice of Trump to lead the National Institutes of Health, appeared before a senatorial committee this week while major changes to the agency crossed the nation. NIH grants pump key research in each state, and deactivation of funding should have significant economic ramifications. Certain universities stop or revoke acceptance of graduate students, potentially close the research tracks and a key source of future educators.
- As expected, the Trump administration said it would no longer pursue a legal effort to block the ban on Idaho abortion for its lack of compliance with the federal law on emergency medical treatment and active work, known as Emtala. But the state ban remains pending because the largest hospital system in the state has intervened to replace the federal government by contesting it.
In addition, for “additional credit”, the panelists suggest that the stories of health policy they read this week that they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: Kff Health News’ “Future of cancer coverage for uncertain federal firefighters under Trump», By Kylie Mohr.
Joanne Kenen: Propublica’s “How the practical approach of Illinois to home teaching leaves children at risk», By Molly Parker and Beth Hunsdorfer, Capitol News Illinois.
Stephanie Armor: The New York Times’ ““Chaos” organ transplantation system because the waiting lists are ignored“By Brian M. Rosenthal, Mark Hansen and Jeremy White.
Lauren Weber: The Washington Post “In the middle of the epidemic of measles west of Texas, resistance to the harde», By Fenit Nirappil and Elana Gordon.
Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:
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