Hoosier Health Matters

Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 27
Date: 11/6/2026
Title: Indiana breaks a 14-year supermajority (and some other news)

0:00 - Intro
1:14 - Indiana Medicaid finally defines medical frailty
2:45 - FSSA admits mistakes with Medicaid waiver denials and lowers the denial rate
4:03 - Indiana’s child care voucher waitlist drops from 41,000 to 9,000 kids
5:46 - Measles cases keep rising in Indiana and vaccine recommendations change
7:28 - The massive Ebola outbreak that isn’t getting enough attention
8:46 - Health insurance premiums are going up, and being insured won’t protect you from the fallout
11:26 - Indiana’s attorney general joins an abortion-related fight over free speech
12:55 - Restrictive reproductive laws are associated with higher homicide rates among women
14:30 - Election recap: Indiana voters dramatically change the Statehouse
16:51 - What breaking the Indiana House supermajority actually means
18:17 - Democrats pick up a remarkable number of Indiana Statehouse seats
21:00 - Some major Indiana lawmakers lose their seats
22:13 - What the new Indiana House and Senate will look like
24:11 - What the election results mean for the Good Trouble Coalition’s priorities
25:49 - Good vibes: take a breath, get outside, and enjoy the post-election calm
26:39 - Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 26
Date: 10/23/2026
Title: Some news and an awesome interview with the former chair of the USPSTF

00:00 Intro
2:04- The GTC candidate database is live- check it out, share with your Hoosier friends and loved ones 
2:54- Early voting centers open this weekend- find the one closer to you at www.voteintime.org
3:50- 58,000 Hoosiers may lose medicaid as of January 1
5:06- Indiana reigning in ABA fraud has been shared with other states by CMS
6:45- Indiana has asked an appeals court to reconsider a ruling that allows Indiana physicians to refer minors to other states for abortions
7:56- Indiana lawmakers disagree on how to handle the death penalty- one wants to outlaw it, the other wants firing squads
9:54- ICE detention medical contractors inflated numbers they submitted to the state (Indystar)
11:12- 6 measles deaths now in Pennsylvania, Indiana hits 50 cases
12:01- Guinea-Bissau study of hepatitis B vaccine that many think is unethical again going to be funded by CDC after they originally pulled the funding due to backlash
13:07- Stephen Quay no longer being considered to head NIAID (which is good, he was wholly unqualified)
14:08- HHS wants to pay doctors for VAERS submissions (which is stupid)
16:15- MAHA is mad at the Trump administration for not doing MAHA stuff
17:42- Advancing Women's Health Executive Order may actually be something good
19:59- 52 maternity wards have closed in the US since July 2025
20:42- FDA will not release mifepristone review until 2027
22:15- interview with Michael Silverstien, former head of USPSTF
56:17- Get vaccinated and vote "Voting is your public health vaccination
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Gabe and Tracey quickly introduce this year's GTC candidate database, which reviews all 276 legislative candidates for office in Indiana and which ones align with GTC values.

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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 25
Date: 10/9/2026
Title: Indiana AI fumbles disability waivers, vaccines.gov has one job (and fails), and a botched execution raises questions for Indiana

00:00 Intro
2:11- Medicaid waiver denials performed by AI paused and then unpaused and are wreaking havoc
3:38- 28 measles cases in Indiana as of this taping; over 1000 cases in Pennsylvania, and 5 people have died; the CDC admits to 2
6:17- Attorney general of Texas is investigating pediatricians for giving vaccinations. It's bonkers.
8:12- Vaccines.gov website is broken and we think that may be the point
9:46- A new vaccine injury clinic has opened and will be run by quacks
10:40- A primer on the plague
12:56- Nicole Saphier and Heidi Overton made it out of the Senate HELP committee and will be voted on by the Senate after the election
14:21- Title X funding has changed under this administration and wants people to use Natural Family Planning (which does not work)
16:49- US is the only country to not approve the “agreed conclusions” of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)
18:18- Botched execution in Tennessee highlights major issues with the death penalty
20:37- The CDC has elected to ignore results on sex and violence in teens in its Youth Risk Behavior Study
22:50- GET VACCINATED, and visit voteintime.org to see where you can vote early (with wait times!)
24:11- Wrap up
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 24
Date: 9/25/2026
Title:  Indiana can’t define medical frailty, measles cases rise while the federal government ignores deaths, and an interview about ending ambulance diversion

00:49- Tracey complains about the weather again
1:52- FSSA frailty definition woes
4:10- Federal lawsuit about medicaid work requirements includes an Indiana plaintiff
4:50- Indiana to remedy the flood SNAP replacements debacle
5:40- Indiana has 16 measles cases now
6:50- Pennsylvania reports its 4th meales death; federal government say there are zero (they are wrong)
8:10- Terrific one pager over respiratory season vaccines
8:56- HHS pondering changes to Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (which would be bad)
11:57- Medical orgs sue FDA over approval of e-cigarettes
12:43- Lots of people with private insurance have medical debt
13:55- Some physician groups choose to forego medical insurance because of cost
14:59- Idaho University sued over study that demonstrated 35% of OB-GYN physicians have left the state
17:12- USPSTF hasn't met for 17 months
19:05- Potential executive order over NIH grant administration would further erode American scientific enterprise (big time)
20:45- Interview with Brent Schnepp, Emergency Medical Services educator about changes to the EMS/hospital diversion rules in Indiana
31:45- Make a plan to vote NOW
32:40- Wrap up
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