Kelly Hooper
Health Care Reporter at POLITICO
Co-Author at Politico Pulse
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1 day ago |
politico.com | Chelsea Cirruzzo |Kelly Hooper
With help from David Lim and Erin Schumaker HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has questioned the need for kids to get a Covid-19 vaccine. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images RETHINKING SHOT — HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is mulling removing the Covid-19 vaccine from the recommended childhood vaccine schedule, two people familiar with the discussions told POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn.
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2 days ago |
politico.com | Chelsea Cirruzzo |Kelly Hooper
With Lauren Gardner President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are steering CMS toward rewarding providers for promoting healthy lifestyles instead of fighting inequities in health care. | Andrew Harnik/Getty Images CHANGE AT CMS — President Donald Trump’s CMS is changing how the federal government rewards doctors and hospitals for quality care.
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3 days ago |
politico.com | Chelsea Cirruzzo |Kelly Hooper
A Supreme Court decision on whether the USPSTF and its authority to mandate insurance coverage for preventive care could have far-reaching consequences. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images ACA’S LATEST BATTLE — Obamacare is back in court. But in an unprecedented twist, the Trump administration is defending the decades-old law, POLITICO’s Alice Miranda Ollstein reports.
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6 days ago |
politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo
UnitedHealth Group's shares fell on Thursday after a bleak earnings report. | Richard Drew/AP Photo MIXED SIGNALS — Uncertainty lingers for the Medicare Advantage industry as two of the nation’s top insurers on Thursday painted different pictures of the program’s financial stability. UnitedHealth Group, the largest insurer and typically a bellwether for the insurance industry, reported its first-quarter earnings — which were “unusual and unacceptable,” according to the company’s CEO.
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1 week ago |
politico.com | Kelly Hooper |Chelsea Cirruzzo
SWEEPING CUTS INCOMING — The Trump administration is considering eliminating dozens of programs at HHS amid a mass reorganization of the agency, POLITICO’s Adam Cancryn reports. Under a more than 30 percent cut to the agency’s budget, public health initiatives aimed at HIV/AIDS prevention would no longer exist, major parts of the National Institutes of Health would be abolished and the FDA would cease routine inspections at food facilities.
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