News has been coming out of Washington, D.C., since the start of the second Donald Trump administration like water out of a fire hose. It can feel impossible to stay on top of all the changes.
So in this episode of “An Arm and a Leg,” host Dan Weissmann speaks with KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner to try to get a handle on what’s happened so far. Rovner has been covering health care in Washington for nearly 40 years and hosts the weekly health policy podcast “What the Health?”
They talk about what the end of a little-known federal health regulatory agency could mean for the health care benefits of millions of Americans, with some help from KFF Health News senior correspondent Arthur Allen. Then, Rovner talks about efforts to cut Medicaid and why it may not be so easy to take apart.
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