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Hoosier Health Matters
Hosted by The Good Trouble Coalition · EN
Hoosier Health Matters focuses on the pressing health policy issues in Indiana and tries to make this stuff not boring. Hosted by Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson, board members of the Good Trouble Coalition, this podcast brings together healthcare and public health stakeholders to discuss, educate, and advocate for patient-centered care, public health, and health equity. It will focus on state-level health policies, legislative updates, and expert interviews.
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RFK doesn't want you using antidepressants, armed forces no longer require flu vaccine, and Tracey teaches us all about mifepristone
1w ago00:21:50Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 14Date: 5/8/2026Title: RFK doesn't want you using antidepressants, armed forces no longer require flu vaccine, and Tracey teaches us all about mifepristone0:00- Intro1:33- GTC is looking for an executive director! More info here2:11- Casey Means is out for Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier is in3:20- 988 Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, is being reinstated and a JAMA paper shows that it has saved a lot of lives4:25- RFK, Jr wants people to stop using antidepressants 5:58- Indiana Medicaid seeking return of $200 million of payments for attendant care providers7:40- 400 new FSSA workers just to check eligibility with the new rules (holy crap)9:23- 340B program changes will not apply to FQHC clinics (good news)10:17- Audit of Marion County Office of Public Health and Safety not good11:12- Indiana drops involvement in lawsuit regarding section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (which is good) but for reasons that aren't great12:04- Pentagon ends requirement for active duty military to be immunized against flu (which is bad policy)13:37- COVID vaccine paper that HHS would not publish has been leaked and you can read it here14:26- Tracey's primer on medication abortion and shenanigans by the 5th circuit court of appeals 19:17- Ban on medicaid billing for Planned Parenthood up for grabs in Congress20:09- Happy National Nurses Week! And get to know the candidates in your district who won their primaries21:02- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →The PBM black box, Marion County’s dirty air, and the CDC’s vaccine slow-walk
3w ago00:36:59Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 13Date: 4/24/2026Title: The PBM black box, Marion County’s dirty air, and the CDC’s vaccine slow-walk0:00- Intro2:00- The Good Trouble Coalition is hiring an executive director- look out for an email from GTC!2:40- Governor Braun moves $200 million to the childcare development fund to provide more vouchers for daycare access4:19- CDC delays release of MMWR report outlining COVID vaccine efficacy5:24- Erica Schwartz nominated to run CDC- most reliable people think she is a good choice6:33- ACIP charter revised by RFK, Jr to allow his "experts" to participate8:15- RFK, Jr walks back his antivaccine stance to congress9:54- Trump Administration dropped the court fight over major changes to NIH funding rates11:15- American Lung Association's State of the Air report demonstrates Marion County failed all measures. Not good.12:29- Indiana Supreme Court will hear the abortion ban challenge (and skip the appellate court)13:15- Louisiana case challenging mifepristone now at the 5th circuit court of appeals and plaintiffs have asked for an injunction on its use without face to face visit14:42- EPA releases list of Human Health Benchmarks for Pharmaceuticals that includes abortion and oral contraceptive medications17:43- Interview with Veronica Vernon, Pharmacist and Butler Professor, about Pharmacy Benefit Managers and what in the heck they do35:15- VOTE IN THE PRIMARY36:06- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →SCOTUS sparks conversion therapy controversy, ideology drives Title X changes, and Indiana’s $207M plan for rural health
Apr 1000:39:34Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 12Date: 4/10/2026Title: SCOTUS sparks conversion therapy controversy, ideology drives Title X changes, and Indiana’s $207M plan for rural health0:00- Intro1:15 - Join the Good Trouble Coalition Board2:01- SCOTUS rules that Colorado cannot ban conversion therapy, but Gabe has complicated thoughts about this ruling12:01- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library fully funded in all 92 Indiana counties12:40- Tracey explains to all of us what Title X is and why new funding through Title X is bad15:58- Match day just passed- we explain what that is and how match results demonstrate the mess that is payment incentives in medicine21:05- Interview with Cara Veale, the CEO of the Indiana Rural Health Association about the Rural Health Transformation Grant37:17- 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 upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →Good news on opioid deaths, judge calls ACIP incompetent, and a discussion about tobacco in Indiana
Mar 2700:39:12Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 11Date: 3/27/2026Title: Good news on opioid deaths, judge calls ACIP incompetent, and a historical look at tobacco use in Indiana0:00- Intro1:21- Good Trouble call for new board members3:12 Opioid deaths down in Indiana (and all states)- good news!4:09 Estimates suggest medicaid changes could drop up to 100,000 Hoosiers5:04 Planned Parenthood to close two Indianapolis sites6:01 Indiana lags in primary and preventative care8:07 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 director12:54 Casey Means does not appear to have the votes to get out of committee for her Surgeon General nomination13:26 Dramatic week for ACIP- Robert Malone picked up his ball and went home16:11 Interview with Miranda Spitznagle, director of the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation37:24 Little things/good vibes38:21 Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →Indiana’s 340B safety net under attack, syringe services survive without a signature, and RFK Jr's nutrition theater
Mar 1300:38:53Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 10Date: 3/13/2026Title: Indiana’s 340B safety net under attack, syringe services survive without a signature, and RFK Jr's nutrition theater00:00- Intro2:01- SB 91 becomes a law without the signature of Governor Braun5:13- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library almost funded despite no state government funds6:50- Permanent injunction on the Indiana Abortion ban based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (but it's not over9:04- Vinay Prasad resigns from the FDA again11:05- Another study debunks Tylenol-autism, FDA reverses guidance on leucovorin for autism, and new independent autism advisory panel13:25- States passing laws protecting clinicians from lawsuits around vaccine confusion14:34- 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 school16:39- 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 FSSAYou should use this script to send an email comment on this proposed change before March 27!37:58- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana
Mar 600:23:37Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 9Date: 3/6/2026Title: End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana00:00- Intro1:21- Good Trouble will have a call for new board members at the end of this month so look out in your email1:49 GTC will also be hiring an executive director, so be looking for calls for that if it is something that might interest you2:19- Donate to Good Trouble to help support this work!3:24- Tracey makes her minor children work4:12- Study in JAMA demonstrated that the 104 Indiana medical residency programs see 1,500 less applicants because of the abortion ban8:01- 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 Indiana11:10- 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 General15:50- 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 motorsports22:42- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →ACIP's weaponized incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and conference committee crunch before Sine Die
Feb 2700:25:46Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 8Date: 2/27/2026Title: Weaponized Incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and Conference Committee Crunch00:00- Intro00:50- 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 errand3:30- NIH removes words "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from the NIH website4:16- USPSTF, which dictates screening guidelines, appears to be at risk6:00- ACIP meeting cancelled- weaponized incompetence6:15- ACOG drops out of ACIP7:33- Hepatitis B vaccine rates have plummeted in the last 2 years8:37- Casey Means confirmation hearing for surgeon general- she is the Fyre Fest of surgeon general nominees- all style, no substance13:01- Court case in Louisiana would restrict telehealth abortion access nationwide15:29- Overview of how legislative conference committees work in Indiana19:55- 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 state23:55- 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 upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →The SAVE Act solves nothing, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again)
Feb 2000:24:05Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 7Date: 2/20/2026Title: The SAVE Act is dumb, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again)00:00- Intro1:30- The SAVE Act is a dumb bill because voter fraud with current processes is very very rare, as proven by our Attorney General4:29- The Trump administration no longer thinks Greenhouse Gases can hurt humans7:48- New study shows that expanding medicaid leads to less breast cancer deaths8:54- Anti-vaccine groups targeting state-level school vaccine mandates9:47- 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 bill16:50- 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 great18:00- SB 139 (breastfeeding jury duty bill) continues it's unanimous tear through the statehouse18:54- 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 SB123:14- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu vaccine trial, and harm reduction harmed at Statehouse
Feb 1300:22:55Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 6Date: 2/13/2026Title: Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu vaccine trial, and harm reduction harmed at Statehouse00:00- Intro2:13- 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 retracted5:00- South Carolina measles dashboard shows how effective the measles vaccine is6:31- 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 Project11:16- 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 ways18:03- SB 275 heard this week in Ways and Means and Gabe talks about testifying in opposition21:14- Call your Indiana House Representative to ask them to return SB 91 to its original form (script here)22:01- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
Transcribe →No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day
Feb 600:30:34Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 5Date: 2/6/2026Title: No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day00:00- 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 methotraxate4:47- Measles still bad in South Carolina, and a cool map that shows you measles risk by county5:55- 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 199:13- 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 away11:50- 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 week16:38- 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 medicaid27:45- 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 support29:49- Wrap upBecome a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!)Donate to support the Good Trouble CoalitionThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
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