Hoosier Health Matters

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
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

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
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

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
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

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
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

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
Thanks for listening!
Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram