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 MattersSeason 2, Episode 5Date: 2/6/2026Title: No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day

Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 5
Date: 2/6/2026
Title: No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day