KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’: Trump 2.0

Health care could well no longer were the biggest predicament within the campaign, however the return of Donald Trump to the presidency is probably going to rating a seismic impact on effectively being protection over the following four years.

Changes to the Cheap Care Act, Medicaid, and the nation’s public effectively being infrastructure are likely on the agenda. However how a ways Trump goes will depend largely on who staffs key effectively being protection roles and on whether or no longer Democrats grab a majority within the U.S. Apartment, the attach several races stay uncalled.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.

Amongst the takeaways from this week’s episode:

• As of Friday morning, it remained unclear which occasion will regulate the Apartment next year. A Democratic-managed Apartment would offer a evaluation against Republican protection modifications and a few regulate of key government oversight committees. A Republican Apartment would give the occasion elephantine regulate of Congress and the presidency. Both map, the occasion on high of things will rating a slim majority.
• Majorities of voters in eight states voted to offer protection to abortion rights — though the pollmeasures passed in precisely seven states. (More than half of of voters in Florida voted for the abortion rights measure, however the utter requires no lower than 60% enhance for pollmeasures to pass.)
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — now a key declare within the Trump transition workers — is telegraphing colossal plans for effectively being protection. Who results in Trump’s Cupboard will fabricate a distinction, as the president-elect is curiously outsourcing worthy of his effectively being protection planning in decide of focusing on components such as the economic system, immigration, and commerce.
• And conservative appointees at some stage within the judicial machine are inclined to stay pleasant to Trump administration causes, which could well well initiating the door to extra challenges to federal insurance policies. Diverse distinguished felony challenges are already winding thru the courts.

Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Jackie Fortiér, who reported and wrote essentially the most popular KFF Health News-Washington Post “Bill of the Month” characteristic, about a 2-year damaged-down who had a dear bustle-in with a rattlesnake. Carry out that you might possibly well rating a scientific bill that is exorbitant, baffling, infuriating, or the total above? Expose us about it!

Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists imply effectively being protection stories they learn this week that they concentrate on it is predominant to serene learn, too:

Julie Rovner: KFF Health News’ “Dentists Are Pulling ‘Wholesome’ and Treatable Teeth to Earnings From Implants, Consultants Warn,” by Brett Kelman and Anna Werner of CBS News.

Alice Miranda Ollstein: Politico’s “The Election’s Stakes for World Health,” by Carmen Paun.

Rachel Cohrs Zhang: KFF Health News’ “As Nuns Recede, Many Catholic Hospitals Explore More Like Megacorporations,” by Samantha Liss.

Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:

• The Fresh York Times’ “R.F.K. Jr. Lays Out Seemingly Public Health Changes Below Trump,” by Remy Tumin.
• KFF Health News’ “Toddler’s Yard Snakebite Bills Totaled More Than a Quarter Million Dollars,” by Jackie Fortiér.

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