KFF Health News 182d ago

On this week's What the Health? From KFF Health News and @wamu885: The enhanced premium tax credits that since 2021 have helped millions of Americans pay for insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplaces will expire Dec. 31, despite a last-ditch effort by Democrats and some moderate Republicans in the House of Representatives to force a vote to continue them. That vote will happen, but not until Congress returns in January. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services canceled a series of grants worth several million dollars to the American Academy of Pediatrics after the group again protested HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s changes to federal vaccine policy. This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Lizzy Lawrence of @Statnews, Tami Luhby of @CNN, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of @POLITICO. Also this week, Rovner interviews Tony Leys, who wrote the latest “Bill of the Month” feature, about an uninsured toddler’s expensive ambulance ride between hospitals: https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/short-nonurgent-ambulance-ride-surprise-bill-of-the-month-november-2025/ Chapters: 00:00 - Introduction 01:05 - Affordable Care Act subsidies 11:26 - Vaccine News, RFK Jr., and the CDC 17:40 - VA Plans To Cut 35,000 Doctors, Nurses, Support Staff 20:10 - FDA and Dietary Supplements 23:34 - Dr. Oz 26:13 - Reproductive health 29:12 - Bill of the Month Interview with Tony Leys 32:15 - Extra Credits