Hoosier Health Matters

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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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 9
Date: 3/6/2026
Title:  End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana

00:00- Intro
1:21- Good Trouble will have a call for new board members at the end of this month so look out in your email
1:49 GTC will also be hiring an executive director, so be looking for calls for that if it is something that might interest you
2:19- Donate to Good Trouble to help support this work!
3:24- Tracey makes her minor children work
4:12- Study in JAMA demonstrated that the 104 Indiana medical residency programs see 1,500 less applicants because of the abortion ban
8:01- More parents refusing vitamin K shots at birth (and why this is a terrible idea)
10:06- CDC report: number of women receiving prenatal care decreasing in Indiana
11:10- Ryan White HIV program reductions will lead to significant increases in HIV infections (and a primer on Ryan White)
14:53- Jerome Adams' mic drop tweet about the nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General
15:50- Overview of legislative session bills filed (741) and passed (163)
17:54- Big win bills: Gabe- SB 91 (syringe exchange); Tracey- the death of SB 236 (abortion)
Big loss bills: Gabe- SB 285 (criminalizing homelessness); Tracey- SB1 (bad medicaid and SNAP changes)
21:45- Check your registration at the Indiana voter portal and watch motorsports
22:42- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 8
Date: 2/27/2026
Title:  Weaponized Incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and Conference Committee Crunch

00:00- Intro
00:50- Gabe's colonoscopy- "It was great"
1:53- NIH director named director of the CDC because finding competent people to run this mess is a fool's errand
3:30- NIH removes words "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from the NIH website
4:16- USPSTF, which dictates screening guidelines, appears to be at risk
6:00- ACIP meeting cancelled- weaponized incompetence
6:15- ACOG drops out of ACIP
7:33- Hepatitis B vaccine rates have plummeted in the last 2 years
8:37- Casey Means confirmation hearing for surgeon general- she is the Fyre Fest of surgeon general nominees- all style, no substance
13:01- Court case in Louisiana would restrict telehealth abortion access nationwide
15:29- Overview of how legislative conference committees work in Indiana
19:55- Language attempted to be put into HB 1417 to counter current lawsuit against the abortion ban (language was not allowed in)
21:01- SB 85, the medical debt bill, failed (for the 2nd straight year)
21:55- SB 91, the syringe exchange program, goes to the governor for signing (yay sort of!)
22:30- SB 1 passes, will kick people off of medicaid needlessly (actually to save the state money) and will cause big problems long term for the state
23:55- Take a deep breath in the weather AND call your federal senators and let them know Casey Means is a bad choice for surgeon general (numbers and script here)
24:32- wrap up
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