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Firié less than a month after being confirmed as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez appeared during a dramatic hearing of the Senate this week alongside another civil servant ousted by the CDC and directly contradicted health and the secretary of social services Robert F. Kennedy, the previous testimony of
Monarerez told the health, education, labor and pensions committee that Kennedy had ordered him to make changes to the childhood vaccine calendar which will soon be recommended by an advisory committee of the CDC, regardless of scientific evidence, and to dismiss superior career scientists who, according to the secretary, did not leave his vaccination opinions.
Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are in confrontation on government funding, with less than two weeks before a potential closure. Democrats – whose votes are required to adopt a bill in the Senate – say they will not vote to keep the government open, unless the Republicans accept to extend the extended subsidies for affordable care insurance plans which expire otherwise at the end of the year. The Republicans have so far resisted these calls, although some fear that the resulting bonus points affect their own voters.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner from Kff Health News, Joanne Kenen of Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico, Alice Miranda Ollstein from Politico and Margot Sanger-Katz of the New York Times.
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Joanne Kenen Johns Hopkins and Politico University
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Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:
- Senator Bill Cassidy (R-La.)-Who, as chairman of the aid committee, called the audience and is gastroenterologist-found himself repelled some of his GOP colleagues, in particular on the importance of the vaccination of newborns against hepatitis B. Cassidy, who is ready to re-election of next year and faces a primary challenge Supervision of the Trump administration supervision.
- The hearing has presented a broad agreement and through the plate that confidence in the CDC has eroded – as well as a striking fracture on the cause and which is at fault. The Democrats point to Kennedy and the Trump administration, while the Republicans blame the treatment by the agency of the Pandemic COVID-19. Historically, Americans tended to trust public health officials; Now states are starting to create a patchwork of policies.
- The congress is struggling to agree on a measure to be taken to maintain funding from the federal government, increasing the chances of a government closure on October 1. Democrats push to extend the increased subsidies of the Federal ACA as an agreement, but this problem could be launched on the road, injecting uncertainty in the process of open registration of this year, which begins on November 1.
- And more details emerge on the rural health fund of $ 50 billion inserted at the eleventh hour in the main law on Trump’s national policy. While the federal government is beginning to request requests for financing for states, it becomes clear that there are attached channels – and that funding is not entirely designated for rural hospitals after all.
This week also, Rovner Interview Trieu Brennan, former head doctor at Aetna and CVS, on his new book on primary care, “wonderful and broken: the complex reality of primary care in the United States”.
In addition, for “additional credit”, the panelists suggest stories of health policy that they read (or wrote) this week that they think you should also read:
Julie Rovner: The “New York Times Magazine Trump closes the war against cancer” by Jonathan Mahler.
Margot Sanger-Katz: The “programs for students with a vision loss and the vision loss of Propublica were injured by the anti-diversity thrust of Trump” by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: New York Times dental insurance. Why do I pay so much for care? “By Erica Sweeney.
Joanne by whom: “Why voters of the Politico magazine will feel the impact of the GOP health cuts before the middle”, by Joanne Kenen.
Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:
- “NBC News data survey: childhood vaccination rates are through the United States”, by Erika Edwards, Jason Kane, Stephanie Gosk, Mustafa Fattah and Joe Murphy.
- The Washington Post “Why 1 of 6 American parents reject the recommendations of the vaccines”, by Lauren Weber, Scott Clement, Emily Guskin and Lena H. Sun.
- “The Rural Health ‘Hunger Games” by Politico is underway “, by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
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