Hoosier Health Matters

Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 14
Date: 5/8/2026
Title:  RFK doesn't want you using antidepressants, armed forces no longer require flu vaccine, and Tracey teaches us all about mifepristone

0:00- Intro
1:33- GTC is looking for an executive director!  More info here
2:11- Casey Means is out for Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier is in
3:20- 988 Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, is being reinstated and a JAMA paper shows that it has saved a lot of lives
4:25- RFK, Jr wants people to stop using antidepressants
 5:58- Indiana Medicaid seeking return of $200 million of payments for attendant care providers
7:40- 400 new FSSA workers just to check eligibility with the new rules (holy crap)
9:23- 340B program changes will not apply to FQHC clinics (good news)
10:17- Audit of Marion County Office of Public Health and Safety not good
11:12- Indiana drops involvement in lawsuit regarding section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (which is good) but for reasons that aren't great
12:04- Pentagon ends requirement for active duty military to be immunized against flu (which is bad policy)
13:37- COVID vaccine paper that HHS would not publish has been leaked and you can read it here
14:26- Tracey's primer on medication abortion and shenanigans by the 5th circuit court of appeals
 19:17- Ban on medicaid billing for Planned Parenthood up for grabs in Congress
20:09- Happy National Nurses Week!  And get to know the candidates in your district who won their primaries
21:02- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 13
Date: 4/24/2026
Title:  The PBM black box, Marion County’s dirty air, and the CDC’s vaccine slow-walk

0:00- Intro
2:00- The Good Trouble Coalition is hiring an executive director- look out for an email from GTC!
2:40- Governor Braun moves $200 million to the childcare development fund to provide more vouchers for daycare access
4:19- CDC delays release of MMWR report outlining COVID vaccine efficacy
5:24- Erica Schwartz nominated to run CDC- most reliable people think she is a good choice
6:33- ACIP charter revised by RFK, Jr to allow his "experts" to participate
8:15- RFK, Jr walks back his antivaccine stance to congress
9:54- Trump Administration dropped the court fight over major changes to NIH funding rates
11:15- American Lung Association's State of the Air report demonstrates Marion County failed all measures. Not good.
12:29- Indiana Supreme Court will hear the abortion ban challenge (and skip the appellate court)
13:15- Louisiana case challenging mifepristone now at the 5th circuit court of appeals and plaintiffs have asked for an injunction on its use without face to face visit
14:42- EPA releases list of Human Health Benchmarks for Pharmaceuticals that includes abortion and oral contraceptive medications
17:43- Interview with Veronica Vernon, Pharmacist and Butler Professor, about Pharmacy Benefit Managers and what in the heck they do
35:15- VOTE IN THE PRIMARY
36:06- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 12
Date: 4/10/2026
Title:  SCOTUS sparks conversion therapy controversy, ideology drives Title X changes, and Indiana’s $207M plan for rural health

0:00- Intro
1:15 - Join the Good Trouble Coalition Board
2:01- SCOTUS rules that Colorado cannot ban conversion therapy, but Gabe has complicated thoughts about this ruling
12:01- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library fully funded in all 92 Indiana counties
12:40- Tracey explains to all of us what Title X is and why new funding through Title X is bad
15:58- Match day just passed- we explain what that is and how match results demonstrate the mess that is payment incentives in medicine
21:05- Interview with Cara Veale, the CEO of the Indiana Rural Health Association about the Rural Health Transformation Grant
37:17- It is time to vote in the primary- between now and May 5th. Find your ballot and an early voting site at https://indianavoters.in.gov/
38:38- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 11
Date: 3/27/2026
Title:  Good news on opioid deaths, judge calls ACIP incompetent, and a historical look at tobacco use in Indiana

0:00- Intro
1:21- Good Trouble call for new board members
3:12 Opioid deaths down in Indiana (and all states)- good news!
4:09 Estimates suggest medicaid changes could drop up to 100,000 Hoosiers
5:04 Planned Parenthood to close two Indianapolis sites
6:01 Indiana lags in primary and preventative care
8:07 New report highlights likely fraud in autism therapy in Indiana (this story pissed Tracey off)
11:51 Administration misses deadline to nominate a new CDC director
12:54 Casey Means does not appear to have the votes to get out of committee for her Surgeon General nomination
13:26 Dramatic week for ACIP- Robert Malone picked up his ball and went home
16:11 Interview with Miranda Spitznagle, director of the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
37:24 Little things/good vibes
38:21 Wrap up

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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 10
Date: 3/13/2026
Title:  Indiana’s 340B safety net under attack, syringe services survive without a signature, and RFK Jr's nutrition theater

00:00- Intro
2:01- SB 91 becomes a law without the signature of Governor Braun
5:13- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library almost funded despite no state government funds
6:50- Permanent injunction on the Indiana Abortion ban based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (but it's not over
9:04- Vinay Prasad resigns from the FDA again
11:05- Another study debunks Tylenol-autism, FDA reverses guidance on leucovorin for autism, and new independent autism advisory panel
13:25- States passing laws protecting clinicians from lawsuits around vaccine confusion
14:34- HHS announces a nutrition education initiative for medical schools, includes Purdue University in the list of 40 schools that have signed on besides the fact that Purdue doesn't have a medical school
16:39- An interview with Alan Witchey, CEO of the Damien Center, about the importance of the 340B drug pricing program and its role in the care of vulnerable patients in Indiana- and a HUGE risk to that program as the result of a proposed regulation change by Indiana FSSA
You should use this script to send an email comment on this proposed change before March 27!
37:58- Wrap up
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