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\t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\tJulie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News\u2019 weekly health policy news podcast, \u201cWhat the Health?\u201d A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book \u201cHealth Care Politics and Policy A to Z,\u201d now in its third edition.\t\t<\/p>\n Fired less than a month after being confirmed as head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Susan Monarez appeared at a dramatic Senate hearing this week alongside another ousted CDC official and directly contradicted Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s earlier testimony about why she was fired. <\/p>\n Monarez told the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee that Kennedy ordered her to agree to approve changes to the childhood vaccine schedule soon to be recommended by a CDC advisory panel, regardless of scientific evidence, and to fire senior career scientists who the secretary felt did not share his vaccine views.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Republicans and Democrats in Congress are at a standoff over government funding, with less than two weeks to go before a potential shutdown. Democrats \u2014 whose votes are required to pass a bill in the Senate \u2014 say they won\u2019t vote to keep the government open unless Republicans agree to extend expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act insurance plans that otherwise expire at the end of the year. Republicans are so far resisting those calls, although some are concerned that the resulting premium spikes would affect their own voters.<\/p>\n This week\u2019s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, and Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times.<\/p>\n \t\t\t \tJoanne Kenen \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \tAlice Miranda Ollstein \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \tMargot Sanger-Katz \t\t\t \t\t\t Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n Also this week, Rovner interviews Troyen Brennan, former chief medical officer at Aetna and CVS, on his new book about primary care, \u201cWonderful and Broken: The Complex Reality of Primary Care in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n Plus, for \u201cextra credit,\u201d the panelists suggest health policy stories they read (or wrote) this week that they think you should read, too:\u00a0<\/p>\n Julie Rovner:<\/strong> The New York Times Magazine\u2019s \u201cTrump Is Shutting Down the War on Cancer<\/a>,\u201d by Jonathan Mahler.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Margot Sanger-Katz:<\/strong> ProPublica\u2019s \u201cPrograms for Students With Hearing and Vision Loss Harmed by Trump\u2019s Anti-Diversity Push<\/a>,\u201d by Jodi S. Cohen and Jennifer Smith Richards.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Alice Miranda Ollstein:<\/strong> The New York Times\u2019 \u201cI Have Dental Insurance. Why Do I Pay So Much for Care?<\/a>\u201d by Erica Sweeney.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Joanne Kenen:<\/strong> Politico Magazine\u2019s \u201cWhy Voters Will Feel the Impact of GOP Health Cuts Before the Midterms<\/a>,\u201d by Joanne Kenen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Also mentioned in this week\u2019s podcast:<\/p>\n \tFrancis Ying \tEmmarie Huetteman To hear all our podcasts,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n And subscribe to KFF Health News\u2019 \u201cWhat the Health?\u201d on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0Pocket Casts<\/a>, or wherever you listen to podcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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