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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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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
Transcribe →Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS
Jan 3000:28:55Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 4Date: 1/30/2026Title: Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS00:00- Intro1:36- Some thoughts about the murder of Alex Pretti3:34- CDC databases about vaccines are not being updated4:39- The American Academy of Pediatrics now provides the national vaccine schedule because the CDC is defunct and a terrific article by YLE about why the language around shared decision making in the new CDC guidelines is problematic6:03- Measles is rampant in South Carolina7:50- ACIP chair doesn't think we need polio vaccine anymore8:30- Texas attorney general is suing pediatricians for some sort of vaccine scheme (I have seen none of these monies)10:14- The United States is no longer part of the World Health Organization11:05- Hospitals in rural Indiana are hurting bad (due to bad health care funding policy) 13:10- Senate Bill 4 would reduce mental health funding14:52- Guinea-Bissau refuses to do HHS funded study that would withhold hepatitis B vaccine from newborns (in a country in which the prevalence of Hepatitis B is 20%!)18:05- Legislative halftime show (we are now only following 43 bills!)20:28- Gabe likes SB 91, Tracey likes SB 139; Tracey doesn't like SB 236, Gabe doesn't like SB 27525:26- Call your Representative about SB 236 and then take a break26:04- 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 →An update on bills and an interview about SB 236, which deals with pregnancy and is a problem for the entire house of medicine
Jan 2300:34:05Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 3Date: 1/23/2026Title: An update on bills and an interview about SB 236, which deals with pregnancy and is a problem for the entire house of medicine00:00- Intro1:38- United States' measles eradication status at risk3:04- The White House released the "Great Healthcare Plan"- it is anything but3:38- New study demonstrates that tylenol taken during pregnancy is not associated with autism4:15- Senate Bill 91- syringe exchange program- an amendment has been filed that is not good. It hasn't yet been voted on.5:08- Senate Bill 51 (medicaid postpartum appointment bill) and Senate Bill 221 (pharmacist test and treat bill) did not get hearings and are 💀6:58- Senate Bill 85 (medical debt) and Senate Bill 282 (regulating medical spas) passed out of committee7:25- Senate Bill 182 (gender issues) is a bad bill and passed out of committee7:59- Discussion with Dr. Carrie Rouse about Senate Bill 236 (a bill further regulating reproductive care in ways that are not good)29:36- Little things/good vibes- Call your Senator on SB 236 and huge kudos to Indiana Hoosier Football30:52- 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 →SB1 will kick people off medicaid, Gabe and Tracey argue about SB 221, and new batshit ACIP members
Jan 1600:24:22Tap to summarizeHoosier Health MattersSeason 2, Episode 2Date: 1/16/2026Title: SB1 will kick people off medicaid, Gabe and Tracey argue about SB 221, and new batshit ACIP members00:00- Intro1:02- Indiana receives $207 million rural health fund grant2:05- The flu is still bad. Get vaccinated if you aren't already.2:59- U.S. set to lose measles eradication status4:25- 2 new batshit members of ACIP5:20- House of Representatives vote to pass ACA subsidy extension (using a discharge petition!)7:00- SB1 will make many more uninsured Hoosiers by making work requirements even more stringent13:30- SB 282 is a good bill that would regulate medical spas and compounding pharmacies14:45- SB 221 would permit pharmacists to test and treat some thigns and Gabe and Tracey argue about it19:40- Check out the Good Trouble Bill Tracker and kudos to David Ives for setting it up for GTC!20:23- Little things- tell someone about a bill that has gotten a hearing, and donate something to a candidate starting a campaign21:26- Wrap upThanks for listening!Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram
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