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After increases overnight, two chamber key committees approved the GOP budget legislation which would reduce hundreds of billions of dollars in federal health programs during the next decade, mainly the Medicaid program for low -income or disability. The legislation is far from being concluded, however, with at least one republican senator expressing opposition to the Medicaid cuts.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Health and Social Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified in front of the congress for the first time since his entry into office. In sometimes combative exchanges with surprisingly with the legislators of the Chamber and the Senate, Kennedy denied having reduced the programs despite the evidence of the contrary and said at some point that he did not think that the Americans “should take medical advice on my part”.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner from Kff Health News, Julie Appleby by Kff Health News, Joanne Kenen of Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico from Johns Hopkins University, and Alice Miranda Ollstein de Politico.
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Julie Appleby Kff Health News
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@ Joannekenen.bsky.social Read the biography of Joanne. Alice Miranda Ollstein Politico
@ AliceMiranda.bsky.social Read the stories of Alice.
Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:
- The House Republicans were released this week – then quickly experienced committee legislation – major legislation which would lead to a profound reduction in federal spending while funding the interior priorities of President Donald Trump, in particular by renewing tax reductions and stimulating border security. A preliminary estimate of the Congress Budget Office revealed that the bill would reduce at least $ 715 billion in federal health spending – most of this money from the Medicaid program.
- Overall, the proposal of the GOP house would make registration more difficult and would remain, on the coverage of Medicaid and the affordable care law. Among other changes, the bill would impose a requirement that unabled adults (with a few exceptions) work, volunteer or study at least 80 hours per month to be eligible for coverage. But patient democrats and defenders show that, rather than encouraging employment, such a mandate leads to more people lose or abandon coverage as part of paperwork requirements.
- The Republicans also refused to extend the improved tax credits introduced during the COVVI-19 pandemic which help many people allow ACA the market. These tax credits expire at the end of the year, and bonuses should ball, which could encourage many people not to renew their coverage.
- And Kennedy’s appearances in Capitol Hill this week provided Congress the first opportunity to question the Secretary of Health since he took his post. It was toasted by the Democrats about vaccines, funds appropriate by Congress, agency layoffs and much more.
In addition, for “additional credit”, the panelists suggest that the health policy stories they read this week that they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: The “Partner of Elizabeth Holmes of the New York Times has a new blood test start-up”, by Rob Copeland.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: “He became the face of the work requirements of Medicaid from Georgia. Now he’s fed up. ” by Margaret Coker, the current.
Julie Appleby: “How National Weather Service Cuts by Scientific American could cost lives,” by Andrea Thompson.
Joanne by whom: The “now is not the time to eat backbag” of the Atlantic, by Nicholas Florko.
Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:
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