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GOP Mulls More Health Cuts
Episode 440
Despite public opposition to the cuts they made to federal health programs in 2025, Republicans reportedly are considering still more cuts to help pa…
4 hours ago
A Headless CDC
Episode 439
The Trump administration faces the challenge of naming a new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who can both satisfy the Make…
1 week ago
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Schedule Changes Blocked — For Now
Episode 438
A federal judge in Massachusetts this week sided with public health groups to block changes to the federally recommended schedule of childhood vaccin…
2 weeks ago
RFK Jr.'s Very Bad Week
Episode 437
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had another tough week. In addition to Kennedy having surgery on a torn rotator cuff, the n…
3 weeks ago
40 Years of Health Policy
Episode 436
This month is 40 years since host Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, began reporting on health policy in Washington. T…
4 weeks ago
What About the State of Health?
Episode 435
Health care got barely a mention in President Donald Trump’s record-long State of the Union address this week. Ahead of the midterms, the Trump admin…
1 month, 1 week ago
Turnarounds and Shake-Ups
Episode 434
The twists and turns continue at the nation’s health agency, where this week’s announcements included notice that the Food and Drug Administration wi…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
New Flu Vax? FDA Says No Thanks
Episode 433
It’s been a busy week at the Food and Drug Administration, with a political appointee overruling agency scientists to reject an application for a new…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
HHS Gets Funding, But How Will Trump Spend It?
Episode 432
Congress has passed — and President Donald Trump has signed — the annual spending bill for the Department of Health and Human Services. But it’s uncl…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
The Hazards of ICE for Public Health
Episode 431
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is not just roiling politics but also directly affecting the provision of health care, medical group…
2 months ago