Hoosier Health Matters
Hoosier Health Matters focuses on the pressing health policy issues in Indiana and tries to make this stuff not boring. Hosted by Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson, board members of the Good Trouble Coalition, this podcast brings together healthcare and public health stakeholders to discuss, educate, and advocate for patient-centered care, public health, and health equity. It will focus on state-level health policies, legislative updates, and expert interviews.
Hoosier Health Matters
Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS
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Hoosier Health Matters
Season 2, Episode 4
Date: 1/30/2026
Title: Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS
00:00- Intro
1:36- Some thoughts about the murder of Alex Pretti
3:34- CDC databases about vaccines are not being updated
4:39- The American Academy of Pediatrics now provides the national vaccine schedule because the CDC is defunct and a terrific article by YLE about why the language around shared decision making in the new CDC guidelines is problematic
6:03- Measles is rampant in South Carolina
7:50- ACIP chair doesn't think we need polio vaccine anymore
8:30- Texas attorney general is suing pediatricians for some sort of vaccine scheme (I have seen none of these monies)
10:14- The United States is no longer part of the World Health Organization
11:05- Hospitals in rural Indiana are hurting bad (due to bad health care funding policy)
13:10- Senate Bill 4 would reduce mental health funding
14:52- Guinea-Bissau refuses to do HHS funded study that would withhold hepatitis B vaccine from newborns (in a country in which the prevalence of Hepatitis B is 20%!)
18:05- Legislative halftime show (we are now only following 43 bills!)
20:28- Gabe likes SB 91, Tracey likes SB 139; Tracey doesn't like SB 236, Gabe doesn't like SB 275
25:26- Call your Representative about SB 236 and then take a break
26:04- Wrap-up