What the Health? From KFF Health News
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What the Health? From KFF Health News

by KFF Health News

Join Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, along with top health policy reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico and other media outlets to discuss the latest news and explain what the health is going on here in Washington, D.C.

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1
A Headless CDC
38:55 Mar 26, 2026
2
RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Schedule Changes Blocked — For Now
41:53 Mar 19, 2026
3
RFK Jr.'s Very Bad Week
40:00 Mar 12, 2026
4
40 Years of Health Policy
46:25 Mar 5, 2026
5
What About the State of Health?
40:49 Feb 26, 2026
6
Turnarounds and Shake-Ups
33:25 Feb 19, 2026
7
New Flu Vax? FDA Says No Thanks
33:57 Feb 12, 2026
8
HHS Gets Funding, But How Will Trump Spend It?
34:19 Feb 5, 2026
9
The Hazards of ICE for Public Health
32:52 Jan 29, 2026
10
Health Spending Is Moving in Congress
45:38 Jan 22, 2026
11
Culture Wars Take Center Stage
41:03 Jan 15, 2026
12
New Year, Same Health Fight
39:39 Jan 8, 2026
13
Rerun: Happy 60th, Medicare and Medicaid!
56:40 Jan 1, 2026
14
Time’s Up for Expanded ACA Tax Credits
41:26 Dec 18, 2025
15
Crunch Time for ACA Tax Credits
43:44 Dec 11, 2025
16
The GOP Still Can’t Agree on a Health Plan
44:43 Dec 4, 2025
17
Trump Almost Unveils a Health Plan
42:54 Nov 25, 2025
18
The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA
44:40 Nov 20, 2025
19
The Government Is Open
31:17 Nov 13, 2025
20
The State of the Affordable Care Act
35:54 Nov 6, 2025
21
Happy Open Enrollment Eve!
33:55 Oct 30, 2025
22
Nutrition Programs Face Their Own Shutdown
37:05 Oct 23, 2025
23
Nutrition Programs Face Their Own Shutdown
37:04 Oct 23, 2025
24
Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown
38:56 Oct 16, 2025
25
Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown
38:56 Oct 16, 2025
26
Starting To Feel the Shutdown’s Bite
40:54 Oct 9, 2025
27
Democrats Make This Shutdown About the ACA
35:59 Oct 2, 2025
28
Public Health Further Politicized Under the Threat of More Firings
40:01 Sep 25, 2025
29
Ousted CDC Officials Clap Back at RFK Jr.
46:37 Sep 18, 2025
30
Countdown to Government Shutdown
37:12 Sep 11, 2025
31
On Capitol Hill, RFK Defends Firings at CDC
43:16 Sep 5, 2025
32
Happy 60th, Medicare and Medicaid!
56:19 Aug 21, 2025
33
Trump Further Politicizes Science
40:02 Aug 14, 2025
34
Kennedy Cancels Vaccine Funding
23:45 Aug 7, 2025
35
Next on Kennedy’s List? Preventive Care and Vaccine Harm
42:07 Jul 31, 2025
36
Here Come the ACA Premium Hikes
45:53 Jul 24, 2025
37
The Senate Saves PEPFAR Funding — For Now
34:15 Jul 17, 2025
38
Digesting Trump’s Big Budget Law
38:34 Jul 10, 2025
39
Trump’s Bill Reaches the Finish Line
32:59 Jul 3, 2025
40
Live From Aspen — Governors and an HHS Secretary Sound Off
49:01 Jun 26, 2025
41
Supreme Court Upholds Bans on Gender-Affirming Care
37:34 Jun 20, 2025
42
RFK Jr. Upends Vaccine Policy, After Promising He Wouldn’t
42:57 Jun 12, 2025
43
Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ Lands in the Senate. Our 400th Episode!
37:00 Jun 5, 2025
44
Live From AHCJ: Shock and Awe in Federal Health Policy
59:09 Jun 2, 2025
45
Bill With Billions in Health Program Cuts Passes House
43:49 May 23, 2025
46
Presenting: ‘First Opinion Podcast’
27:13 May 20, 2025
47
GOP Poised To Cut Billions in Health Benefits
39:47 May 15, 2025
48
Cutting Medicaid Is Hard — Even for the GOP
34:42 May 8, 2025
49
100 Days of Health Policy Upheaval
51:17 May 1, 2025
50
Can Congress Reconcile Trump’s Wishes With Medicaid’s Needs?
41:57 Apr 24, 2025
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