Hoosier Health Matters

Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 7
Date: 2/20/2026
Title:  The SAVE Act is dumb, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again)

00:00- Intro
1:30- The SAVE Act is a dumb bill because voter fraud with current processes is very very rare, as proven by our Attorney General
4:29- The Trump administration no longer thinks Greenhouse Gases can hurt humans
7:48- New study shows that expanding medicaid leads to less breast cancer deaths
8:54- Anti-vaccine groups targeting state-level school vaccine mandates
9:47- FDA reverses decision and will review the Moderna flu mRNA vaccine (and Gabe predicts this)
12:07- Judge reverses public health cuts to 4 states (and the vindictive nature of our current federal government is nauseating)
14:22- SB 91 (syringe service bill) was a good bill, amended to become a bad bill, re-amended to a meh bill
16:50- SB 275 (a bad bill which would allow cuts to home health rates for medicaid waivers) weakened with amendments in committee, is better but still not great
18:00- SB 139 (breastfeeding jury duty bill) continues it's unanimous tear through the statehouse
18:54- SB1 (a bad bill that will kick people off of medicaid and SNAP) to be voted on by the house next Tuesday (call your representative about this one)
19:14- Tracey introduces the word "germane" in discussion the death of SB 236 (a good thing)
22:13- things to do this week: be on alert for action alerts via email and call your rep about SB1
23:14- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 6
Date: 2/13/2026
Title:  Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu vaccine trial, and harm reduction harmed at Statehouse

00:00- Intro
2:13-  FDA removes autism quackery website within weeks of autism quacks being named to Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee  
3:47- Leucovorin as treatment for autism study retracted
5:00- South Carolina measles dashboard shows how effective the measles vaccine is
6:31- FDA refuses to review phase 3 trial from Moderna for an mRNA flu vaccine (which is bonkers it had 40,000 patients)
10:24- AMA partnering with the Vaccine Integrity Project
11:16- Maternity unit at Johnson Memorial health closes 
12:18- SB 91, the syringe service program bill, amended in the House Public Health Committee in not good ways
18:03- SB 275 heard this week in Ways and Means and Gabe talks about testifying in opposition
21:14- Call your Indiana House Representative to ask them to return SB 91 to its original form (script here)
22:01- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 5
Date: 2/6/2026
Title:  No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day

00:00- Intro
 1:10- Indiana's groundhog, Hope, from Hope, Indiana, did not see her shadow so 
1:56- Executive order by Governor Braun to prevent fraud 
3:52- Trump administration eliminated a rule that pharmacies must stock mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotraxate
4:47- Measles still bad in South Carolina, and a cool map that shows you measles risk by county
5:55- Another shut down just ended, and it fully funded the NIH (actually, it increased funding a bit)
7:00- American Society of Plastic Surgeons reverses guidance and now recommends delaying gender affirming surgery until adolescents reach age 19
9:13- Urban institute notes that Indiana ranks very low in income growth over the last 50 years and Indiana had the 4th largest percent of ACA enrollees elect not to re-enroll after the subsidies went away
11:50- Gabe explains the Nipah virus, which is very deadly (but is unlikely to be the next pandemic)
15:01- SB 90, which governs elective exams under anesthesia, heard this week and expected to pass vote next week
16:38- Long discussion of SB1, which will kick more Hoosiers off of medicaid, and Gabe and Tracey discuss the fiscal priorities (tax cuts) that require these cuts to medicaid
27:45- Things to do this week: Put your lawmakers' phone numbers in your phone, and look here to find out who is running for State Rep and State Senate (if your senator is up for election) this year and find someone to support
29:49- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 4
Date: 1/30/2026
Title:  Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS

00:00- Intro
1:36- Some thoughts about the murder of Alex Pretti
3:34- CDC databases about vaccines are not being updated
4:39- The American Academy of Pediatrics now provides the national vaccine schedule because the CDC is defunct and a terrific article by YLE about why the language around shared decision making in the new CDC guidelines is problematic
6:03- Measles is rampant in South Carolina
7:50- ACIP chair doesn't think we need polio vaccine anymore
8:30- Texas attorney general is suing pediatricians for some sort of vaccine scheme (I have seen none of these monies)
10:14- The United States is no longer part of the World Health Organization
11:05- Hospitals in rural Indiana are hurting bad (due to bad health care funding policy) 
13:10- Senate Bill 4 would reduce mental health funding
14:52- Guinea-Bissau refuses to do HHS funded study that would withhold hepatitis B vaccine from newborns (in a country in which the prevalence of Hepatitis B is 20%!)
18:05- Legislative halftime show (we are now only following 43 bills!)
20:28- Gabe likes SB 91, Tracey likes SB 139; Tracey doesn't like SB 236, Gabe doesn't like SB 275
25:26- Call your Representative about SB 236 and then take a break
26:04- Wrap-up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 3
Date: 1/23/2026
Title:  An update on bills and an interview about SB 236, which deals with pregnancy and is a problem for the entire house of medicine

00:00- Intro
1:38- United States' measles eradication status at risk
3:04- The White House released the "Great Healthcare Plan"- it is anything but
3:38- New study demonstrates that tylenol taken during pregnancy is not associated with autism
4:15- Senate Bill 91- syringe exchange program- an amendment has been filed that is not good. It hasn't yet been voted on.
5:08- Senate Bill 51 (medicaid postpartum appointment bill) and Senate Bill 221 (pharmacist test and treat bill) did not get hearings and are 💀
6:58- Senate Bill 85 (medical debt) and Senate Bill 282 (regulating medical spas) passed out of committee
7:25- Senate Bill 182 (gender issues) is a bad bill and passed out of committee
7:59- Discussion with Dr. Carrie Rouse about Senate Bill 236 (a bill further regulating reproductive care in ways that are not good)
29:36- Little things/good vibes- Call your Senator on SB 236 and huge kudos to Indiana Hoosier Football
30:52- Wrap-up
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