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Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 25 Date: 10/9/2026 Title: Indiana AI fumbles disability waivers, vaccines.gov has one job (and fails), and a botched execution raises questions for Indiana 00:00 Intro 2:11- Medicaid waiver denials performed by AI paused and then unpaused and are wreaking havoc 3:38- 28 measles cases in Indiana as of this taping; over 1000 cases in Pennsylvania, and 5 people have died; the CDC admits to 2 6:17- Attorney general of Texas is investigating pediatricians for giving vaccinations. It's bonkers. 8:12- Vaccines.gov website is broken and we think that may be the point 9:46- A new vaccine injury clinic has opened and will be run by quacks 10:40- A primer on the plague 12:56- Nicole Saphier and Heidi Overton made it out of the Senate HELP committee and will be voted on by the Senate after the election 14:21- Title X funding has changed under this administration and wants people to use Natural Family Planning (which does not work) 16:49- US is the only country to not approve the “agreed conclusions” of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) 18:18- Botched execution in Tennessee highlights major issues with the death penalty 20:37- The CDC has elected to ignore results on sex and violence in teens in its Youth Risk Behavior Study 22:50- GET VACCINATED, and visit voteintime.org to see where you can vote early (with wait times!) 24:11- Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 24 Date: 9/25/2026 Title:  Indiana can’t define medical frailty, measles cases rise while the federal government ignores deaths, and an interview about ending ambulance diversion 00:49- Tracey complains about the weather again 1:52- FSSA frailty definition woes 4:10- Federal lawsuit about medicaid work requirements includes an Indiana plaintiff 4:50- Indiana to remedy the flood SNAP replacements debacle 5:40- Indiana has 16 measles cases now 6:50- Pennsylvania reports its 4th meales death; federal government say there are zero (they are wrong) 8:10- Terrific one pager over respiratory season vaccines 8:56- HHS pondering changes to Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (which would be bad) 11:57- Medical orgs sue FDA over approval of e-cigarettes 12:43- Lots of people with private insurance have medical debt 13:55- Some physician groups choose to forego medical insurance because of cost 14:59- Idaho University sued over study that demonstrated 35% of OB-GYN physicians have left the state 17:12- USPSTF hasn't met for 17 months 19:05- Potential executive order over NIH grant administration would further erode American scientific enterprise (big time) 20:45- Interview with Brent Schnepp, Emergency Medical Services educator about changes to the EMS/hospital diversion rules in Indiana 31:45- Make a plan to vote NOW 32:40- Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 23 Date: 9/11/2026 Title:  Indiana loses 82,000 SNAP recipients, ectopic pregnancy deaths rise, and measles deaths get an asterisk 00:00:19 - Intro 00:01:58 - The abortion ban has made Indiana emergency department clinicians skittish 00:03:42 - Propublica showed that deaths due to ectopic pregnancies have doubled since Dobbs 00:06:06 - Indiana Supreme Court finally heard the RFRA challenge to the abortion ban 00:06:56 - 13% of SNAP recipients in Indiana no longer getting SNAP 00:08:21 - Indiana takes a draconian approach to replacing SNAP benefits for flood victims 00:09:21 - SNAP error rate puts Indiana on the hook for $47 million in admin costs 00:12:34 - Limiting SNAP sugar options is dumb 00:13:36 - ICE has been active in Indy as of late 00:14:25 - New COVID vaccine formulation approved by the FDA 00:16:08 - A summary of the batshit crazy story of the HHS mishandling of the Pennsylvania Measles deaths 00:19:23 - 400 datasets not being updated at the federal level 00:20:27 - DOGE left a bunch of zombie offices at the CDC 00:22:46 - Mifepristone case still working its way through the courts 00:24:14 - Check your voter registration and probably don't vote by mail 00:25:03 - Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 22 Date: 8/28/2026 Title:  Medicaid waiver denials skyrocket, the courts back public health, and an interview on the impact of Health First Indiana  00:00- Intro 2:07- The Indianapolis Birth Fund gets renewed for another year! 3:15- Medicaid waiver denials have skyrocketed, leaving many people who need help without it 6:02- 300,000 Hoosiers likely impacted by Medicaid work requirements, which is a massive number 7:28- MMR vaccination rates have fallen nationally- not good 10:42- a judge stops the dismantling of the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program 11:36- AHRQ grants are not being renewed and senators are pissed 12:31- Jerome Adams calls out contradictions in HHS food policy 13:30- Heidi Overton nominated as FDA commissioner 14:58- 7th district court strikes down Indiana law that bars physicians from referring minors out of stste for abortion care 17:21- Idaho judge rules that there is a right to abortion for health, including mental health, reasons 18:28- Interview with Valerie Yeager and Aparna Soni about a recent study demonstrating financial return on investments from Health First Indiana (the public health funding law) 41:30- Tell those around you how you feel about them, and consider hand-writing a card of thanks to someone 42:50-Wrap-up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 21 Date: 8/14/2026 Title:  Indiana returns Medicaid money despite really needing to use it on health care and RFK gish gallops through an interview 00:00- Intro 1:34- 1,842 Good Trouble Members!  Invite those you know and love who are interested in Public Health to join GTC 2:19- Indiana FSSA gives back $310 million from the Medicaid budget back to the general funds at the same time that... 3:44- Indiana Capital Chronicle with great stories on Medicaid changes that reveal we could probably use those $310 million for health care for Hoosiers 11:37- First 2 measles cases in Indiana in 2026 reported in Parke County 12:28- Federal executive order regarding vaccines is not backed by science. Or any reputable doctors.  14:42- mRNA influenza vaccine approved by the FDA 17:08- Dr. Erika Schwartz confirmed as CDC director 17:39- Cyclospora outbreak slowing greatly (and Gabe has survived thus far). But jalepenos are now carriers of salmonella 18:50- Gabe and Tracey break down a recent interview with RFK junior and introduce the term "Gish Gallop" 35:00- Tracey wants people to donate to a local nonprofit newsroom, and Gabe wants you to put down your phone and chill with your kids (if you have them) 36:40- Wrap up Elijah Bosslet provided editing assistance on this episode Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 20 Date: 7/31/2026 Title:  Indiana has a surplus of billions (but none for summer meals for kids), keep avoiding bagged lettuce, and recent health law cases 00:00- Intro 00:35- Tracey is confused by NASCAR 1:35- 24 new members since last episode! Tell your friends to become GTC members! 2:29- Indianapolis one of the 5 least fit cities (out of 100) 5:02- Indiana flush with cash ($6 billion in reserves) 6:51- Despite this, we have opted out of Sunbucks for 2027 (which provides meals to low-income children over the summer) 9:05- 954 Cyclospora cases in Indiana. Don't eat bagged lettuce. 11:16- US has the highest annual measles cases already this year in 35 years but Indiana has no cases in 2026! 14:50- CDC nominee Erica Schwartz was less than impressive in her nomination hearing 16:27- House passes Sunshine Protection Act, which would make it dark most of the morning in Indiana 17:50- Department of Defense to test all 30-year-old soldiers for their testosterone levels, which is super weird.  19:23- Interview with Jane Hartsock about Public Health-related court cases 52:07- Little things- Enjoy the last few days of summer with your kids, and discover your Indiana Statehouse candidates, find which ones align with your values, and donate to them (same for the Senate if that seat is up for election!) Email [email protected] if you need help with this! 54:09- Wrap-up Elijah Bosslet provided editing assistance with this episode. Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 19 Date: 7/17/2026 Title:   Indiana ranks poorly (again), explosive watery diarrhea spreads, and the government doesn't want teens masturbating 0:00- Intro 1:18- Join Good Trouble and let friends know to join us too- help us get to 2,000 members 2:48- Indiana ranked as one of the 10 worst states in which to live, and CNBC pointed out how terrible child care is here as a cause 4:02- Indiana SNAP error rate rises a bit, but remains below the national average (and the state has to pay a penalty for this) 5:46- TPR report case, which we have followed for 2+ years, now resolved by the Indiana Supreme Court and TPRs will not be released (which is good) 8:09- Indiana Medicaid updates, including rollout of new work requirements, which necessitate that you work for 3 months before getting benefits. Which is dumb. 9:28- Medicaid patients now able to go to Planned Parenthood again in all states except Indiana 11:28- ACIP committee charter rewritten (again) 12:36- CDC Executive Advisory, Science and Operations unit planned, which will require political appointees to approve scientific publications by CDC, which is not how this works 14:30- Cyclospora and explosive watery diarrhea 19:00- ACA (Obamacare) premiums predicted to rise a double digit percentage again next year 20:50- Teen pregnancy prevention program grants cancelled and changed in ways that mirror moms.gov and teh federal government does not want you masturbating 24:33- Mifepristone safety study by FDA continuing and may be released this year? 26:10- Watch the World Cup and take social media off of your phone 27:48- Wrap up Elijah Bosslet provided editing assistance with this episode. Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 18 Date: 6/26/2026 Title:  Indiana health prices go public, military flu outbreaks, and Title X on the chopping block NEXT EPISODE WILL BE JULY 17 0:00- Intro 2:05- A new website shows you health care service prices at health care institutions in Indiana. 4:08- 40% of Hoosiers can't afford the cost of living 5:25- FDA VRBPAC approves the mRNA flu vaccine that the previous FDA vaccine czar refused to review. 8:07- Military removes a flu vaccine requirement- vaccine coverage goes from nearly 100% to 40%- huge outbreak at an air force base in Texas.  Stupid decisions yield predictably stupid results. 9:56- RFK, Jr pissed that a s****y vaccine study has been retracted 12:25- Ebola outbreak continues 13:09- 770,000 kids from 12 states no longer receiving SNAP (food) benefits 14:14- Rural health grant rules being changed mid-stream 15:43- Title X program lawsuit challenges changes to the Title X program (this is a good lawsuit) 17:18- Gabe reminds us that moms.gov exists, which is a terrible website 17:58- States losing a lot of money due to abortion restrictions- and Indiana is one of the biggest losers 19:24- Tracey teaches us all about the federal embryo adoption program, and recent problematic changes around the language of that program 21:53- Go team USA!!!! Editing assisstance this week by Elijah Bosslet Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 17 Date: 6/19/2026 Title:  Indiana kids lose Medicaid, mifepristone panic, and Sen. Bohacek on medical marijuana 0:00- Intro 2:25- 20% less Indiana children enrolled in Indiana Medicaid today compared to a year ago 4:32- Fairbanks School of Public Health joins with Indiana Department of Health to form an academic health department partnership (yay!) 6:29- Indiana tries to reign in healthcare costs by limiting hospital charges to employer based programs starting July 1 7:57- Andre Carson files bill to make SunBucks a default opt-in program (likely in response to Indiana opting out the last 2 years for reasons that seem nefarious) 10:27- MAHA wants people to eat vegetable but the Department of Agriculture is cutting funding for fresh foods in their programs 11:47- Federal House Budget would cut two extremely successful health outcomes and implementation science programs 13:56- Indiana's attorney general wants to make sure the EPA is monitoring mifepristone in drinking water. Math tells us you would have to drink 233 lifetimes of water in a very short time to achieve 1/1000th of the therapeutic serum level 17:33- FDA mifepristone safety investigation starting in earnest 18:54- Interview with State Senator Mike Bohacek about his bill to legalize medical marijuana in Indiana 32:05- Join Good Trouble for a social meetup Tuesday June 23 at Half Liter in Broad ripple at 6 pm! And watch the US beat Australia in the World Cup! 32:56- Wrap up Editing assistance on this week's episode provided by Elijah Bosslet Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 16 Date: 6/5/2026 Title:  "Nuclear family month" executive order 🙄, more vaccine policy chaos, and the political takeover of NIH grants 0:00- Intro 1:57- Infant mortality rate for Indiana steady but remains higher than the national rate 3:11- Indiana sues federal government over a proposed change to marijuana policy 5:10- June declared "nuclear family month" by Governor Braun, despite the fact that families look a lot of different ways, and only 18% of Hoosier households meet this definition 7:02- Many more tick bites this year so check yourself  7:49- FSSA halts new ABA provider enrollment 8:33- HHS ACIP charter proposal pulled and ACIP is in shambles 10:30- New federal executive order sets the stage for major vaccine schedule changes 12:14- FDA report: no child deaths associated with COVID vaccine 13:03- Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo is the 3rd largest on record (not something to worry about, but not a good situation and any Americans who get ebola will not be treated in the United States (breaking from previous policy) 16:05- National smoking rate down to 9%! 17:13- Proposed rule change will make devastating changes to research grants in the United States (read the statement by Academy Health) 22:37- Go to a pride celebration and join GTC for the annual meeting on Monday June 8th on zoom! 24:23- Wrap up Editing assistance on this episode by Elijah Bosslet Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 15 Date: 5/22/2026 Title:  USPSTF turmoil, moms.gov propaganda, and modernizing Indiana's HIV laws 0:00- Intro 1:33- Physician in charge of the Hantavirus oubreak has no public health experience but does have a podcast called "The Erection Connection" 2:30- United States Preventative Services Task Force quietly being dismantled 4:13- Marty Makary resigns as head of FDA- we now have no CDC director, no FDA director, no surgeon general 5:42- Nicole Saphier, nominee for Surgeon General, is a grifter 7:10- NIH doesn't have enough grant managers to pay out all the grants that have been awarded 8:34- Federal government had been holding up immigration visas for doctors but it looks like they are going back on that 9:38- Updates in abortion 12:08- Moms.gov is a really s****y website 14:36- New FSSA plan to attempt to reign in Indian Healthcare costs is a novel attempt to acheive this 18:30- Thoughts about legalizing marijuana in Indiana may be changing 19:57- Interview with Dr. Carrie Foote about the HIV Modernization Movement to reform scientifically outdated laws that criminalize Hoosiers living with HIV.  35:00- Join Good Trouble for its annual meeting (on Zoom) on June 8! 35:53- Wrap up This episode was edited by Elijah Bosslet. Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 14 Date: 5/8/2026 Title:  RFK doesn't want you using antidepressants, armed forces no longer require flu vaccine, and Tracey teaches us all about mifepristone 0:00- Intro 1:33- GTC is looking for an executive director!  More info here 2:11- Casey Means is out for Surgeon General, Nicole Saphier is in 3:20- 988 Hotline for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis, is being reinstated and a JAMA paper shows that it has saved a lot of lives 4:25- RFK, Jr wants people to stop using antidepressants  5:58- Indiana Medicaid seeking return of $200 million of payments for attendant care providers 7:40- 400 new FSSA workers just to check eligibility with the new rules (holy crap) 9:23- 340B program changes will not apply to FQHC clinics (good news) 10:17- Audit of Marion County Office of Public Health and Safety not good 11:12- Indiana drops involvement in lawsuit regarding section 504 of Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (which is good) but for reasons that aren't great 12:04- Pentagon ends requirement for active duty military to be immunized against flu (which is bad policy) 13:37- COVID vaccine paper that HHS would not publish has been leaked and you can read it here 14:26- Tracey's primer on medication abortion and shenanigans by the 5th circuit court of appeals  19:17- Ban on medicaid billing for Planned Parenthood up for grabs in Congress 20:09- Happy National Nurses Week!  And get to know the candidates in your district who won their primaries 21:02- Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 13 Date: 4/24/2026 Title:  The PBM black box, Marion County’s dirty air, and the CDC’s vaccine slow-walk 0:00- Intro 2:00- The Good Trouble Coalition is hiring an executive director- look out for an email from GTC! 2:40- Governor Braun moves $200 million to the childcare development fund to provide more vouchers for daycare access 4:19- CDC delays release of MMWR report outlining COVID vaccine efficacy 5:24- Erica Schwartz nominated to run CDC- most reliable people think she is a good choice 6:33- ACIP charter revised by RFK, Jr to allow his "experts" to participate 8:15- RFK, Jr walks back his antivaccine stance to congress 9:54- Trump Administration dropped the court fight over major changes to NIH funding rates 11:15- American Lung Association's State of the Air report demonstrates Marion County failed all measures. Not good. 12:29- Indiana Supreme Court will hear the abortion ban challenge (and skip the appellate court) 13:15- Louisiana case challenging mifepristone now at the 5th circuit court of appeals and plaintiffs have asked for an injunction on its use without face to face visit 14:42- EPA releases list of Human Health Benchmarks for Pharmaceuticals that includes abortion and oral contraceptive medications 17:43- Interview with Veronica Vernon, Pharmacist and Butler Professor, about Pharmacy Benefit Managers and what in the heck they do 35:15- VOTE IN THE PRIMARY 36:06- Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 12 Date: 4/10/2026 Title:  SCOTUS sparks conversion therapy controversy, ideology drives Title X changes, and Indiana’s $207M plan for rural health 0:00- Intro 1:15 - Join the Good Trouble Coalition Board 2:01- SCOTUS rules that Colorado cannot ban conversion therapy, but Gabe has complicated thoughts about this ruling 12:01- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library fully funded in all 92 Indiana counties 12:40- Tracey explains to all of us what Title X is and why new funding through Title X is bad 15:58- Match day just passed- we explain what that is and how match results demonstrate the mess that is payment incentives in medicine 21:05- Interview with Cara Veale, the CEO of the Indiana Rural Health Association about the Rural Health Transformation Grant 37:17- It is time to vote in the primary- between now and May 5th. Find your ballot and an early voting site at https://indianavoters.in.gov/ 38:38- Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 11 Date: 3/27/2026 Title:  Good news on opioid deaths, judge calls ACIP incompetent, and a historical look at tobacco use in Indiana 0:00- Intro 1:21- Good Trouble call for new board members 3:12 Opioid deaths down in Indiana (and all states)- good news! 4:09 Estimates suggest medicaid changes could drop up to 100,000 Hoosiers 5:04 Planned Parenthood to close two Indianapolis sites 6:01 Indiana lags in primary and preventative care 8:07 New report highlights likely fraud in autism therapy in Indiana (this story pissed Tracey off) 11:51 Administration misses deadline to nominate a new CDC director 12:54 Casey Means does not appear to have the votes to get out of committee for her Surgeon General nomination 13:26 Dramatic week for ACIP- Robert Malone picked up his ball and went home 16:11 Interview with Miranda Spitznagle, director of the Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation 37:24 Little things/good vibes 38:21 Wrap up Become a member of the Good Trouble Coalition (free!) Donate to support the Good Trouble Coalition Thanks for listening! Follow us on Bluesky and Instagram