Kelly Hooper

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GOP lines up behind Medicaid overhaul

1 day ago | politico.com | Lauren Gardner |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

With Robert King and Ben Leonard House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie, left, and ranking member Frank Pallone were in a marathon committee markup meeting where much of the talk centered around Medicaid cuts. | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images LONG DAY’S JOURNEY — The Energy and Commerce Committee pulled an all-nighter debating the potential impacts of Republican proposals to change Medicaid, part of the GOP’s domestic policy megabill, Ben and Robert report.
How Guthrie got a (tentative) deal

2 days ago | politico.com | Robert King |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

House E&C Committee Chair Brett Guthrie's willingness to compromise could be what brings colleagues around at Tuesday’s megabill markup. | Francis Chung/POLITICO A BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL — House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) has had to make peace between moderates wary of deep cuts to Medicaid and conservatives angling for the cuts to make Republicans’ domestic policy megabill work.
GOP unveils Medicaid overhaul plans

3 days ago | politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

E&C Chair Brett Guthrie laid out his committee's megabill plans for Medicaid on Sunday night. | Francis Chung/POLITICO MEDICAID WORK RULE — House Republicans are proposing work requirements for Medicaid and are planning to limit states’ use of the lucrative provider tax, which some consider a loophole that allows states to increase federal spending on the program, POLITICO’s Ben Leonard and Robert King report.
Brain donations lost amid NIH funding confusion

6 days ago | politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

The NIH’s NeuroBioBank network collects and distributes brain donor tissue to researchers worldwide. Uncertain federal funding put that work at risk. | Harry Haroutunian BRAIN PAIN — Confusion over whether health research contracts will be retained amid President Donald Trump’s push to cut billions of dollars from health agency budgets has led some researchers to halt brain donations, POLITICO’s Erin Schumaker reports.
‘Most favored nation’ getting another shot

1 week ago | politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

President Donald Trump has promised a "very big announcement" next week, which some suspect will involve a new Medicare drug-pricing program. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images A SECOND TRY — President Donald Trump will reintroduce a sweeping Medicare drug-pricing plan that failed to advance in his first term, POLITICO’s Jake Traylor and Adam Cancryn report.
Trump defends abortion pill access. Yes, really.

1 week ago | politico.com | Alice Ollstein |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

With help from Robert King, Sophie Gardner and Erin Schumaker The DOJ is defending an FDA rule in favor of access to the abortion drug mifepristone, a move that might anger some anti-abortion groups. | Jacquelyn Martin/AP DOJ TELLS COURT TO TOSS ABORTION PILL CASE — The Trump administration revealed in a court filing Monday afternoon that it will continue the Biden administration’s defense of the FDA’s rules for mifepristone, a drug used in roughly two-thirds of abortions.
Rural hospitals, insurers clash over MA

1 week ago | politico.com | Sophie Gardner |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

Medicare Advantage enrollees' access to hospitals in rural parts of the country is threatened as a growing number of health systems no longer accept the insurance. | Gillian Flaccus/AP Photo GROWING PAINS —In recent years, more people have been signing up for Medicare Advantage in rural America than ever before, just as more and more hospitals are refusing to accept the private plans, Kelly reports.
Tapping the breaks on megabill markup

1 week ago | ourcommunitynow.com | David Lim |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

Share SURPRISE: AN E&C DELAY — House GOP leaders are delaying an Energy and Commerce Committee megabill markup another week to coalesce a strategy toward Medicaid spending cuts, POLITICO’s Meredith Lee Hill reports.The decision comes after Speaker Mike Johnson, E&C Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and other members of the House GOP leadership team ran through Medicaid proposals and other major pieces of the GOP’s party-line domestic policy package with President Donald Trump during a White House...
Tapping the breaks on megabill markup

1 week ago | politico.com | David Lim |Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

With help from Adam Cancryn, Robert King and Erin Schumaker Rep. Brett Guthrie and other GOP leaders met with President Donald Trump on Thursday to review Medicaid proposals. | Francis Chung/POLITICO SURPRISE: AN E&C DELAY — House GOP leaders are delaying an Energy and Commerce Committee megabill markup another week to coalesce a strategy toward Medicaid spending cuts, POLITICO’s Meredith Lee Hill reports.
RFK Jr.’s autism pledge divides advocates

2 weeks ago | politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has gotten mixed reactions to his depictions of people with autism from a number of autism advocacy groups. | Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images AUTISM COMMUNITY SPLIT — Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pledge to investigate autism’s “root cause” has drawn sharp criticism from much of the autism advocacy community — except for those focused on the neurodevelopmental condition’s most severe forms, Chelsea and POLITICO’s Lauren Gardner report.