Provider taxes, state strategies, and funding limits

Howie and Harlan are joined by health law and policy expert Sara Rosenbaum to discuss how incremental reform expanded healthcare access—and the urgent work now underway to prevent those gains from being undone. Harlan explores how AI is quietly filling gaps in the healthcare system; Howie highlights a milestone in the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

Show notes:

AI as a Healthcare Tool

OpenAI: "AI as a Healthcare Ally"

"Cost Leads Americans' Top-of-Mind Healthcare Concerns"

"Physician sentiments around the use of AI in health care: motivations, opportunities, risks, and use cases"

OpenAI: Introducing ChatGPT Health

Sara Rosenbaum

"The Policy Entrepreneur"

KFF: Children's Health Insurance Timeline

Sara Rosenbaum: "A 'Shift in Kind': A Medicaid Work Requirement Would Radically Change Health Policy"

Sara Rosenbaum: "Implementing Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements: Defining A 'Serious Or Complex Medical Condition'"

Sara Rosenbaum: "Who's Affected by Medicaid Work Requirements? It's Not Who You Think"

"South Carolina reports 124 new measles cases as outbreak grows"

"Medical Groups Will Try to Block Childhood Vaccine Recommendations"

CDC: About the Vaccines for Children (VFC) Program

Sara Rosenbaum: "A Twenty-First Century Vaccines For Children Program"

Sara Rosenbaum: "Nearly 5.6 Million Community Health Center Patients Could Lose Medicaid Coverage Under New Work Requirements, with Revenue Losses Up to $32 Billion"

Sara Rosenbaum: "How Medicaid Built Community Health Centers and Health Centers Returned The Favor"

KFF: 5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Provider Taxes

"How New Limits on State Provider Taxes Will Affect Medicaid Funding"

Preventing Mother-to-Child Infection

"WHO validates Brazil for eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV"

Health & Veritas Episode 178: Sarah DeSilvey: Creating Space for Healing

"Why Syphilis Cases in Newborns Are Rising Even as STIs Decline"

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