Trump’s ‘One Massive Lovely Invoice’ Lands in Senate. Our four-hundredth Episode!

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Julie Rovner
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Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health Information’ weekly Health coverage information podcast, “What the Health?” A famous knowledgeable on Health coverage points, Julie is the creator of the critically praised reference guide “Health Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.

After narrowly passing within the Home in Might, President Donald Trump’s “One Massive Lovely Invoice” has now arrived within the Senate, the place Republicans are struggling to resolve whether or not to go IT, change IT, or — as Elon Musk, who lately stepped again from advising Trump, is demanding — kill IT. 

Including gas to the fireplace, the Congressional Price range Workplace estimates the invoice as written would enhance the variety of Individuals with out Health insurance coverage by almost 11 million over the subsequent decade. That quantity would develop to roughly 16 million ought to Republicans additionally not prolong extra subsidies for the Inexpensive Care Act, which expire at yr’s finish. 

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health Information, Jessie Hellmann of CQ Roll Name, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Publish.

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Jessie Hellmann
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Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico

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Lauren Weber
The Washington Publish

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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:

• Even earlier than the CBO launched estimates of what number of Individuals stand to lose Health protection underneath the Home-passed price range reconciliation invoice, Republicans in Washington had been casting doubt on the nonpartisan workplace’s findings — as they did throughout their 2017 Inexpensive Care Act repeal effort.
• Responding to issues about proposed Medicaid cuts, Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst, a Republican, this week stood behind her controversial rejoinder at a city corridor that “we’re all going to die.” The comment and its public response illuminated the problematic politics Republicans face in lowering advantages on which their constituents rely — and will foreshadow marketing campaign fights to come back.
• Journalists revealed that Health and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s report on youngsters’s Health might have been generated at the least partially by synthetic intelligence. The telltale indicators within the report of what are known as “AI hallucinations” included citations to scientific research that don’t exist and a garbled interpretation of the findings of different analysis, elevating additional questions concerning the validity of the report’s suggestions.
• And the Trump administration this week revoked Biden-era steerage on the Emergency Medical Remedy and Lively Labor Act. Regardless, the underlying legislation instructing hospitals to look after these experiencing being pregnant emergencies nonetheless applies.

Additionally this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health Information’ Arielle Zionts, who reported and wrote the newest “Invoice of the Month” characteristic, a few Medicaid affected person who had an emergency in one other state and the massive invoice he acquired for his troubles. When you’ve got an infuriating, outrageous, or baffling medical invoice you’d wish to share with us, you are able to do that right here.

Plus, for “further credit score,” the panelists counsel Health coverage tales they learn (or wrote) this week that they suppose it is best to learn, too:

Julie Rovner: KFF Health Information’ “Native Individuals Harm by Federal Health Cuts, Regardless of RFK Jr.’s Guarantees of Safety,” by Katheryn Houghton, Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez, and Arielle Zionts.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: Politico’s “Health-sector-00377579″>‘They’re the Spine’: Trump’s Focusing on of Authorized Immigrants Threatens Health Sector,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.

Lauren Weber: The New York Occasions’ “Take the Quiz: Could You Manage as a Poor American?” by Emily Badger and Margot Sanger-Katz.

Jessie Hellmann: The New York Occasions’ “A DNA Technique Is Finding Women Who Left Their Babies for Dead,” by Isabelle Taft.

Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:

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