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With a single vote to lose, the Chamber has adopted a controversial budget bill which includes billions of dollars in tax discounts for the rich, as well as billions of dollars in Medicaid discounts, the affordable care law and the program of food coupons – most of which will affect those which will have the end of the income scale. But the bill faces an uncertain future in the Senate.
Meanwhile, the Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner from Kff Health News, Anna Edney from Bloomberg News, Sarah Karlin-Smith of The Pink Sheet and Alice Miranda Ollstein from Politico.
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Anna Edney Bloomberg News
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Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:
- The Republicans of the Chamber adopted their “big, beautiful” bill 215-214 this week, with a criticism of criticism of republican criticism. But the Senate can have its own “large, beautiful” rewriting. Some conservative senators who are concerned about the federal debt fear that the bill will not be fully paid and increase the budget deficit. Others, including some Republicans in the Red State, say that the Cups of the Medicaid bill and food aid go too far and would injure the Americans at low income. The bills of the bill would represent the greatest discounts of Medicaid in the 60th anniversary of the program.
- Many of the bills of the bill would come from adding work requirements. Most people who receive Medicaid are already working, but such requirements in Arkansas and Georgia have shown that people often lose coverage under these rules because they find it difficult to document their working hours, including due to technological problems. The Budget Office of the Non -Supportis Congress considered that a previous version of the bill would reduce the number of people with Medicaid by at least 8.6 million over a decade. The requirements could also add a burden for employers. The work requirements of the bill are relatively wide and affect people aged 19 to 64.
- People whose Medicaid coverage is canceled would no longer be eligible for ACA grants for market plans. Medicare would also be affected because the bill should trigger a general sequestration section.
- The bill would also have an impact on abortion by effectively prohibiting it in the ACA market plans, which would disrupt a compromise struck in the law of 2010. And the bill would block the funding of Planned Parenthood in Medicaid, although federal money is used for other care such as cancer screening, not abortions. In the past, the Senate parliamentarian said that this type of provision was not authorized under budgetary rules, but some Republicans want to take the unusual measure to prevail over the parliamentarian.
- This week, FDA leaders have published recommendations from the COVVI-19 vaccine in a medical newspaper. They plan to limit future access to vaccines to people aged 65 and over and others who are at high risk of serious illness if they are infected, and they want to demand that manufacturers carry out other clinical trials to show if vaccines benefit young in good health. There are questions about the question of whether this is legal, what products would be affected, when it would take effect and if it is ethical to demand these studies.
- HHS has published a report on chronic diseases starting in childhood. The report does not include many new conclusions but is remarkable in part because of what it does not discuss – armed violence, the main cause of death for children and adolescents in the United States; tobacco; lack of health insurance coverage; And the socio-economic factors that affect access to healthy foods.
This week also, Rovner interviews the professor of the school of law at the University of California-Davis and historian of abortion Mary Ziegler about her new book on the past and the future of the movement of “personality” aimed at granting legal rights to fetus and embryos.
In addition, for “additional credit”, the panelists suggest that the stories of health policy they read this week, they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: “Washington White House officials wanted to put federal workers” in trauma “. It works, ”by William Wan and Hannah Natanson.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: “NPR diseases are spreading. The CDC did not arrive at the public as months ago, ”by Chiara Eisner.
Anna Edney: “The potential cancer of Bloomberg News, the health risks hiding in a popular OTC medication”, by Anna Edney.
Sarah Karlin-Smith: “Farmingdale Observer scientists have been studying work at a distance for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion:” working at home makes us happier “, by Bob Rubila.
Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:
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