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What the Health? From 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News: Democrats Make This Shutdown About the ACA

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The foreshadowed federal shutdown came after Congress failed to pass required spending bills, with Democrats demanding Republicans renew the expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies in exchange for their votes. While a shutdown does not affect Medicare and Medicaid, it could eventually hinder activities from every corner of the Department of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, as Democrats and Republicans point fingers, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pursues policies and personnel that would undermine vaccines. Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Bloomberg News join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss the news. Also this week, Rovner interviews 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Cara Anthony, who wrote a recent 鈥淏ill of the Month鈥 feature about an out-of-network eye surgery that left one kindergartner鈥檚 family with a big bill.

Workers鈥 Wages Siphoned To Pay Medical Bills, Despite Consumer Protections

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Health care providers and debt collectors are biting from people鈥檚 paychecks to cover old medical bills. A 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News investigation in Colorado shows that this aggressive collection practice is widespread even in a state considered to have strong consumer protections.

Where Jobs Are Scarce, Over 1 Million People Could Dodge Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Work Rules

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Under a new law, many Americans will have to meet a work requirement to obtain and keep their Medicaid coverage. But due to an exemption, millions living in areas of high unemployment could be spared.

Journalists Recap Coverage on Organ Harvesting, Obamacare, and Medicaid Cuts

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杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here鈥檚 a collection of their appearances.

What the Health? From 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News: Public Health Further Politicized Under the Threat of More Firings

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In a rambling news conference that shocked public health experts, President Donald Trump 鈥 without scientific evidence 鈥 blamed the over-the-counter drug acetaminophen, and too many childhood vaccines, for the increase in autism diagnoses in the U.S. That came days after a key immunization advisory panel, newly reconstituted with vaccine doubters, changed several long-standing recommendations. Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official Demetre Daskalakis joins 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss those stories. Meanwhile, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call and Anna Edney of Bloomberg News join Rovner with the rest of the news, including a threat by the Trump administration to fire rather than furlough federal workers if Congress fails to fund the government beyond the Oct. 1 start of the new fiscal year.

States Are Cutting Medicaid Provider Payments Long Before Trump Cuts Hit

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North Carolina and Idaho are cutting their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

Health Care Cuts Threaten Homegrown Solutions to Rural Doctor Shortages

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In a rural, largely Republican region of California, homegrown efforts to bolster the medical workforce face an uphill battle, in part because of federal health care cuts approved by the GOP Congress and signed by President Donald Trump in July, as well as a state budget deficit.

El aumento de personas sin seguro m茅dico pondr谩 en aprietos a los sistemas de salud locales

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Las medidas del gobierno han despertado una nueva preocupaci贸n: la creciente dificultad para que m茅dicos, hospitales y otros proveedores de salud puedan seguir atendiendo a personas sin seguro m茅dico.

What the Health? From 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News: Countdown to Government Shutdown

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With less than three weeks before the deadline to pass legislation to keep the federal government running, lawmakers are still far apart on a strategy. Democrats hope Republicans will agree to extend expanded tax credits for the Affordable Care Act as part of a compromise, but so far Republicans are not negotiating. Meanwhile, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. released his long-awaited 鈥淢ake America Healthy Again鈥 report, with few specific action items. Anna Edney of Bloomberg News, Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call, and Lauren Weber of The Washington Post join 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News鈥 Julie Rovner to discuss these stories and more.

Trump鈥檚 Medicaid Cuts Were Aimed at 鈥楢ble-Bodied Adults.鈥 Hospitals Say Kids Will Be Hurt.

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The GOP said its overhaul of Medicaid was aimed at reducing fraud and getting more adult beneficiaries to work. Among the likely side effects: fewer services and doctors for treating sick children.

Recortes de Trump a Medicaid apuntaban a 鈥渁dultos sanos鈥, pero hospitales advierten que ni帽os sufrir谩n las consecuencias

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Algunos hospitales infantiles podr铆an perder miles de millones de d贸lares en ingresos una vez que se aplique por completo la amplia ley fiscal y de gasto de Trump, conocida por los republicanos como la One Big Beautiful Bill.

In the Fallout From Trump鈥檚 Health Funding Cuts, States Face Tough Budget Decisions

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The Trump administration has pushed a significant amount of health costs to states, whose budgets may already be strained by declining state tax revenues, a slowdown in pandemic spending, and economic uncertainty. State and local governments now face difficult decisions.

He Built Michigan’s Medicaid Work Requirement System. Now He’s Warning Other States.

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Michigan鈥檚 former top health official spent a year and $30 million building a system to implement work requirements for Medicaid recipients. The difficulties he encountered have him worried about 40 states and Washington, D.C., having to launch such systems by 2027.

Trump Administration Investigates Medicaid Spending on Immigrants in Blue States

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is hunting for Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse in at least six Democratic-led states that expanded coverage to low-income and disabled immigrants without legal status, according to records obtained by 杨贵妃传媒視頻 Health News and The Associated Press.