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A brand new evaluation finds that graduating medical college students have been much less prone to apply this yr for residency coaching in states that ban or prohibit abortion. That was true not just for aspiring OB-GYNs and others who often deal with pregnant sufferers, however for all specialties.
In the meantime, one other examine has discovered that greater than 4 million kids have been terminated from Medicaid or the Kids’s Well being Insurance coverage Program for the reason that federal authorities ended a covid-related provision barring such disenrollments. The examine estimates about three-quarters of these kids have been nonetheless eligible and have been kicked off for procedural causes.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Lauren Weber of The Washington Put up, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins College faculties of nursing and public well being and Politico Journal, and Anna Edney of Bloomberg Information.
Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
- Extra medical college students are avoiding making use of to residency packages in states with abortion restrictions. That would worsen entry issues in areas that already don’t have sufficient docs and different well being suppliers of their communities.
- New threats to abortion care in america embrace not solely state legal guidelines penalizing abortion tablet possession and abortion journey, but additionally on-line misinformation campaigns — which are attempting to discourage folks from supporting abortion poll measures by telling them lies about how their data may be used.
- The newest information is out on the destiny of Medicare, and a fairly sturdy financial system seems to have purchased this system’s belief fund one other 5 years. Nonetheless, its total well being will depend on a long-term answer — and a long-term answer will depend on Congress.
- In Medicaid enlargement information, Mississippi lawmakers’ newest try to increase this system was unsuccessful, and a report reveals two different nonexpansion states — Texas and Florida — account for about 40% of the 4 million youngsters who have been dropped from Medicaid and CHIP final yr. By not increasing Medicaid, holdout states say no to billions of federal {dollars} that could possibly be used to cowl well being take care of low-income residents.
- Lastly, the chapter of the hospital chain Steward Well being Care tells a putting story of what occurs when non-public fairness invests in well being care.
Additionally this week, Rovner interviews KFF Well being Information’ Katheryn Houghton, who reported and wrote the most recent KFF Well being Information-NPR “Bill of the Month” characteristic, a couple of affected person who went outdoors his insurance coverage community for a surgical procedure and thought he had coated all his bases. It turned out he hadn’t. When you have an outrageous or incomprehensible medical invoice you’d wish to share with us, you can do that here.
Plus, for “additional credit score,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The Nation’s “The Abortion Pill Underground,” by Amy Littlefield.
Joanne Kenen: The New York Instances’ “In Medicine, the Morally Unthinkable Too Easily Comes to Seem Normal,” by Carl Elliott.
Anna Edney: ProPublica’s “Facing Unchecked Syphilis Outbreak, Great Plains Tribes Sought Federal Help. Months Later, No One Has Responded,” by Anna Maria Barry-Jester.
Lauren Weber: Stat’s “NYU Professors Who Defended Vaping Didn’t Disclose Ties to Juul, Documents Show,” by Nicholas Florko.
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