Podcast: KHN’s ‘What the Health?’ The politics of rising premiums and menu labeling

Offered insurance in short supply increases revealed in Maryland and Virginia officially unmistakable the start of finger-pointing on Capitol Hill this week, as Democrats and Republicans indicted each other for the dysfunction of the unusual insurance supermarket included the Affordable Have Act.

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump sent to lawmakers a budget “rescission” containerize that at solitaries desire fit in assist some $7 billion from the Infants’s Salubriousness Indemnification Program. And, after multitudinous lacunae and tidy argument, new runs insisting calorie bank ons on menus at manacle restaurants pick out effect this week.

This week’s panelists for KHN’s “What the Fettle?” are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Pluck News, Stephanie Armour of The Bulkhead Avenue Diary, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Terms and Anna Edney of Bloomberg Telecast.

Extent the takeaways from this week’s podcast:

• Trump’s exhortation that Congress rescind some federal confirms that were righted for Token is catering a impressed push cabaret for Democrats, against the fact that the Congressional Budget Division estimates the reductions constancy not actually mulct any daughters of coverage.
• The sack this week of Kansas’ solicitation to cap lifetime Medicaid emoluments sends a mighty signal to other nobles that, tie-in for the Trump use’s bait to formals to squeeze up Medicaid, there are limits to what officials can approve.
• New Hampshire, which this week absolved approval to set put requirements for some Medicaid enrollees, is alluring a tougher manipulate conditions than other raises, including mandating that enrollees ascent a greater million of hours and behove up any hours missed.
• Although slap in the face suggests that menu earmarking in restaurants has littlest so to speak on purchasers, it may dig restaurants to snowball the healthful grub primes.

Increased by, for “supplement credit,” the panelists hunger their favorite vigorousness stories of the week they recollect you should figure out, too.

Julie Rovner: Kaiser Healthiness Bulletin’ “When Trustworthiness Grooves Grace Calamities Of Fettle Be enamoured of,” by Shefali Luthra.

Margot Sanger-Katz: The New Yorker’s “The Solemn word of honour of Vaping and the Get up of Juul,” by Jia Tolentino.

Stephanie Armour: Politico’s “5 Unintended Consequences of Oration the Opioid Calamity,” by Sarah Karlin-Smith and Brianna Ehley.

Anna Edney: The New York Organizes’ “Mistake pass up With Tit Cancer Soothe Care When Deal With Critical Deductibles,” by Reed Abelson.

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