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The Supreme Court ruled this week in favor of the Tennessee Act prohibiting most of the healing care for minors – a law similar to that of two dozen other states.
Meanwhile, the Senate is still hoping to finish its work on its version of the huge bill on the budget reconciliation of President Donald Trump before the fourth break. But deeper cuts on the Medicaid program than those included in the bill adopted by the Chamber could prove difficult to swallow for moderate senators.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner from Kff Health News, Victoria Knight from Axios, Alice Miranda Oldstein from Politico and Sandhya Raman from CQ Roll Call.
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Among the take -out dishes of this week’s episode:
- The decision of the Supreme Court on affirmative care for transgender minors was relatively limited in its scope. The majority did not add up the broader question of whether transgender individuals are protected by anti-discrimination federal laws and, as the court’s decision canceling constitutional law to an abortion, states that have left the power to determine what young trans can receive.
- The GOP of the Senate unveiled its version of the bill on budget reconciliation this week. Defying the expectations that senators soften the impact of the health care bill, the proposal would make deeper cuts in Medicaid, largely to the detriment of hospitals and other suppliers. Republican senators say that these reductions would allow them more flexibility to renew and extend many Trump tax reductions.
- Medicare administrators were released this week with a new forecast for the program which mainly covers those over 65, predicting insolvency by 2033 – even earlier than expected. There was a bipartite support to include a repression on a supplier’s practice known as the upward coding of the reconciliation bill, a decision that could have saved a bundle in public spending. But no fundamental reduction in Medicare expenses was ultimately part of the legislation.
- With the third anniversary of the decision of the Supreme Court canceled Roe c. Wade By approaching, the movement to put an end to abortion largely merged around a goal: to prevent people from accessing the abortion pill.
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 “bureaucrat and the billionaire of the New York Times: the chaotic acquisition of Social Security” inside Doge “, by Alexandra Berton, Nicholas Nehamas and Tara Siegel Bernard.
Victoria Knight: The New York Times “They asked questions about the AI chatbot. The answers sent them a spiral”, by the cashmere Hill.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: “What tear gas and rubber bullets do to the human body”, by Emily Mullin.
Sandhya Raman: North Carolina Health News and “The ambulance companies of Charlotte Ledger collect millions by entering wages, tax reimbursements of the State” by Michelle Crouch.
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