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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’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third edition.\t\t<\/p>\n The Senate has passed \u2014 and sent back to the House \u2014 a bill that would allow the Trump administration to claw back some $9 billion in previously approved funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting. But first, senators removed from the bill a request to cut funding for the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, President George W. Bush’s international AIDS\/HIV program. The House has until Friday to approve the bill, or else the funding remains in place.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can ban the abortion pill mifepristone despite its approval by the Food and Drug Administration. If the ruling is upheld by the Supreme Court, it could allow states to limit access to other FDA-approved drugs.<\/p>\n This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, Shefali Luthra of The 19th, and Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.<\/p>\n \t\t\t \tJoanne Kenen \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \tShefali Luthra \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t \tSandhya Raman \t\t\t \t\t\t \t\t\t Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:<\/p>\n Plus, for “extra credit” the panelists suggest health policy stories they read this week that they think you should read, too:\u00a0<\/p>\n Julie Rovner:<\/strong> The New York Times’ “UnitedHealth’s Campaign to Quiet Critics<\/a>,” by David Enrich.<\/p>\n Joanne Kenen:<\/strong> The New Yorker’s “Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases \u2014 Using Drugs We Already Have?<\/a>” by Dhruv Khullar.<\/p>\n Shefali Luthra:<\/strong> The New York Times’ “Trump Official Accused PEPFAR of Funding Abortions in Russia. It Wasn’t True<\/a>,” by Apoorva Mandavilli.<\/p>\n Sandhya Raman:<\/strong> The Nation’s “\u2018We’re Creating Miscarriages With Medicine’: Abortion Lessons from Sweden<\/a>,” by Cecilia Nowell.<\/p>\n Also mentioned in this week’s podcast:<\/p>\n \tFrancis Ying \tEmmarie Huetteman To hear all our podcasts,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n And subscribe to KFF Health News’ “What the Health?” 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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