KFF Health News' 'What the Health?'
Join Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, along with top health policy reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico and other media outlets to discuss the latest news and explain what the health is going on here in Washington, D.C.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 420
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Georgia Turns the Senate Blue
Democratic victories in two runoff elections in Georgia will give Democrats control of the Senate starting Jan. 20, which means they will be in charge of both houses of Congress and the White House f…
00:28:49 |
Thu 07 Jan 2021
2020 in Review — It Wasn’t All COVID
The coronavirus pandemic colored just about everything in 2020. But there was other health policy news that you either never heard or might have forgotten about: the Affordable Care Act going before …
00:31:52 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
All I Want for Christmas Is a COVID Relief Bill
Congress seems on the verge of finishing a long-delayed COVID-19 relief bill, which will reportedly include neither of the things each party wanted most — for Republicans, liability protections; for …
00:41:16 |
Thu 17 Dec 2020
Vaccines Soon but COVID Relief Bill Still Stalled
Even as the Food and Drug Administration nears emergency authorization for the first vaccine to protect against COVID-19, Congress remains at loggerheads over a COVID relief bill that could also prov…
00:43:19 |
Thu 10 Dec 2020
Who Will Run the Biden Health Effort?
The official transition to a Joe Biden administration has finally begun, and he is expected to announce his health care team soon, including a new secretary of Health and Human Services. Meanwhile, a…
00:46:35 |
Thu 03 Dec 2020
Transition Troubles Mount as COVID Spreads
COVID-19 is spreading rapidly around the U.S. even before Thanksgiving promises to accelerate the trend. There are two promising vaccine candidates, but because President Donald Trump still refuses t…
00:40:32 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
What Would Dr. Fauci Do?
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been one of the public’s most trusted voices throughout the coronavirus pandemic, as he has been for the past 3½ decades of public health emergencies. As the head of the Nationa…
00:21:53 |
Thu 19 Nov 2020
Transition Interrupted
Former Vice President Joe Biden is now the president-elect nearly everywhere but inside the Trump administration, where the president refuses to concede and has ordered officials not to begin a forma…
00:38:32 |
Thu 12 Nov 2020
Change Is in the Air
Former Vice President Joe Biden remains on the cusp of being declared the winner of the presidential election, and which party will control the Senate next year remains in question. The outcomes of b…
00:32:23 |
Fri 06 Nov 2020
As COVID Cases Spike, White House Declares Pandemic Over
Former President Barack Obama says President Donald Trump is “jealous of COVID’s media coverage.” Indeed, Trump has complained at his rallies, attended by mostly maskless supporters, about how the me…
00:45:45 |
Thu 29 Oct 2020
A Little Good News and Some Bad on COVID-19
Glimmers of hope are beginning to appear in the fight against the coronavirus, such as a decreasing death rate. But there’s not-so-good news, too, including a push for “herd immunity,” which could re…
00:36:37 |
Thu 22 Oct 2020
Dems May Lose on SCOTUS, But Hope to Win on ACA
Barring something unexpected, Democrats in the Senate appear to lack the votes to block the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. So, instead they used the high-profile confir…
00:40:58 |
Thu 15 Oct 2020
Trump vs. COVID
President Donald Trump is one of at least two dozen people tied to the White House who have tested positive for COVID-19. Negotiations on the next round of COVID relief are off again — maybe. And the…
00:44:22 |
Thu 08 Oct 2020
Election Preview: What’s Next for Health?
How will health issues affect voter choices? What will happen if President Donald Trump is reelected or the White House goes to Joe Biden? In this special election preview episode, Margot Sanger-Katz…
00:45:15 |
Thu 01 Oct 2020
ACA in Peril With Ginsburg Seat in Play
The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is giving new life to the latest constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act. It also places anti-abortion activists on the cusp of a co…
00:43:51 |
Thu 24 Sep 2020
It’s Scandal Week
President Donald Trump this week issued a prescription drug pricing order unlikely to lower drug prices, and he contradicted comments by his director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
00:34:36 |
Thu 17 Sep 2020
The Politics of Science
Republicans have all but abandoned the Affordable Care Act as a campaign cudgel, judging from their national convention, at least. Meanwhile, career scientists at the federal government’s preeminent …
00:46:35 |
Thu 10 Sep 2020
The Affordable Care Act Turns 10 (Rebroadcast)
We’re off this week, but the Affordable Care Act is in the news, as the GOP holds its virtual convention and the Supreme Court recently scheduled arguments in a case challenging the law. So we’re reb…
00:45:54 |
Thu 27 Aug 2020
Democrats in Array (For Now)
In a highly produced, made-for-TV political convention, Democrats papered over their differences on a variety of issues, including health care, to show a unified front to defeat President Donald Trum…
00:45:15 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
Kamala Harris on Health
The Democratic presidential ticket is complete, with Joe Biden’s selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris as his running mate. Health has not been a major issue for Harris, whose career priority ha…
00:30:50 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
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