In this special episode of “What the Health?” from KFF Health News and WAMU, host @julierovner.bsky.social talks to @cynthiaccox.bsky.social of @kff.org about the state of the Affordable Care Act. https://bit.ly/4813Bad

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Hello from Paris, where I am taking a break from the ACA and shutdown mess.

A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative. (Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)

TIL the Post has added, inline in their articles, an AI chatbot pop-up that invites you to ask questions of the gibberish machine that makes up facts. Thanks, I hate it.

Imagining Homer Simpson on the jury, drooling and saying “mmmhhhm projectile sandwich”

New: Liz Cheney on her father, “Country over Party” www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

ICYMI, Trump posted that he wanted to fund SNAP "as soon as possible . . . [i]f we are given the appropriate legal direction." So a federal judge said "here's the legal direction" and ordered either full payment by today or partial by Wednesday. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

first #WTHealth podcast with our new distribution partner @wamu.org! Find us now on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts! kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Just in time!

new #WTHealth podcast up! @shefali.bsky.social, @alicemiranda.bsky.social, and @rachelroubein.bsky.social on the latest shutdown news, Trump's IVF policy, and immigration and health care. Plus the latest "bill of the month." kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

"That's the big irony here - Democrats are fighting hard to basically save health insurance for a pretty Republican group of people." @julierovner.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social discuss who relies on the Affordable Care Act as the shutdown stalemate over its subsidies drags on.

apparently we are having the entire ACA debate over again. Sigh.

new #WTHealth up! @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social and I on shutdown latest, another Rx deal for Trump, and layoffs at HHS. Plus @louisenorris.bsky.social on Medicare Open Enrollment for 2026. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Deep cuts made to CDC’s flagship MMWR publication, a cornerstone of public health www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

Gorgeous day at the wharf for a festival celebrating the first amendment! Here with my peeps from @wamu885

on this week's #WTHealth: shutdown fallout, vaccine changes, a new generic abortion pill and more; with @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social and CNN's Tami Luhby. Plus Sarah Grusin of @nhelp.bsky.social on immigrants and federal health programs: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

NEW: 51 Senators urge RFK Jr. and Marty Makary to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone— and to suspend its distribution as an "imminent hazard" under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Collins and Murkowski only GOP members not to sign justthenews.com/sites/defaul...

Sir, you signed the law guaranteeing back pay for furloughed workers in 2018...

"Court judge Diane Goodstein... had reportedly received death threats for weeks related to her work". "[A]t least three members of her family, including her husband... and their son, have been hospitalized with serious injuries." time.com/7323442/sout...

Wally says “Aspen isn’t the only one in this family who can win blue ribbons!”

brand new #WTHealth podcast up! @shefali.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, and @rachelcohrs.bsky.social on the shutdown, the Rx announcement, and the latest vaccine news. Plus, a "bill of the month" with Cara Anthony. kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Your occasional reminder that Russ Vought, who is claiming the right to fire civil servants for whatever reason he sees it, once refused to quit a political appointment position even after Trump had lost.

If you saw "Trump Rx" and immediately thought "Trump Steaks" and other grifts, well, you're right. You will not even be able to buy anything on Trump Rx; it's just a funnel to existing corporate patient assistance sites that don't touch the structural factors that keep drug prices high. From me:

lots of people getting this completely or slightly wrong. Here's a helpful backgrounder on emergency medicaid: healthlaw.org/wp-content/u...

reupping my explanation of how the shutdown impacts health programs with the aid of my corgis... www.youtube.com/shorts/N4VvV...

BTW I do also think the first and last page, responding to a slightly menacing postcard that judge received, are worth everyone reading. The judge is deliberately modeling democracy itself, in how he responds to a person who appears more committed to his favored president than to democracy.

had a great chat with fellow Michigan fan @janecoaston.bsky.social about what the shutdown/health care fight is all about. Thanks for having me! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmcg...

This moment was the whole reason for this meeting. He wants protesters shot and he wants these officers to give that order.

The HHS contingency shutdown plan is now posted: www.hhs.gov/about/budget...

145 Firings Followed Charlie Kirk’s Assassination A wide range of occupations have been fired or disciplined www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

i guess this needs updating (from 2023) www.youtube.com/shorts/CFmKP...

On this week's #WTHealth podcast: Former CDC official @drdemetre.bsky.social on the ACIP meeting and autism announcement...plus @sandhyawrites.bsky.social and @annaedney.bsky.social on the rest of this week's health news. Have a listen: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

I’m old enough to remember when Vance said Trump might be “America’s Hitler.” And to remember when Trump called Kamala Harris a “fascist.”

BREAKING NEWS: The group voted to require people who want a shot to be briefed on harms and benefits and tried but failed to pass a requirement for a prescription.

NPR: “Regarding Antifa…” TRUMP: “Who are you with?” NPR: “NPR.” TRUMP: “You’re still here? Won’t be for long… does Antifa have anything to do with your network?”

The chaos from the first day of a meeting of the federal vaccine committee appointed by RFK Jr. bled into the second day, as the panel reversed one decision and indefinitely postponed a vote on a hepatitis B vaccine they had already deferred once. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

on this week's #WTHealth podcast: @sangerkatz.bsky.social, @alicemiranda.bsky.social, and @joannekenen.bsky.social on the CDC hearing, shutdown countdown, and more. Plus an interview with Troyen Brennan on his new book on primary care: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

Houry is asked who decided the agenda for ACIP meeting tomorrow and Friday. - Houry says this is first time since she was at CDC where political appointees answerable to the secretary set agenda for scientific meeting.

I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior

Ask your insurance if you Koalify...

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

Today: - @kff.org's Julie Rovner on RFK Jr. and childhood health, - @davidfbrand.bsky.social on NYC's vacant supportive housing stock, - @datasociety.bsky.social's Jill Lepore on the Constitution, - Your religious conversions Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

States have just weeks to apply for a slice of a new $50b fund for rural health care. How much states get will depend in part on whether they bar low-income people from using food stamps to purchase "non-nutritious foods" and reestablish the Presidential Fitness Test www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

My office assistants having a serious case of the Mondays…

i was on C-Span this am, talking ACA subsidies and MAHA report: www.c-span.org/program/wash...

new #WTHealth podcast up! Join me, @annaedney.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @laurenweberhp.bsky.social to discuss the latest health budget news, the MAHA report, and banning drug ads on TV? kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

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