Hoosier Health Matters

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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. 

  1. 1D AGO

    RFK doesn't want you using antidepressants, armed forces no longer require flu vaccine, and Tracey teaches us all about mifepristone

    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

    22 min

  2. APR 24

    The PBM black box, Marion County’s dirty air, and the CDC’s vaccine slow-walk

    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

    37 min

  3. APR 10

    SCOTUS sparks conversion therapy controversy, ideology drives Title X changes, and Indiana’s $207M plan for rural health

    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

    40 min

  4. MAR 27

    Good news on opioid deaths, judge calls ACIP incompetent, and a discussion about tobacco in Indiana

    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

    39 min

  5. MAR 13

    Indiana’s 340B safety net under attack, syringe services survive without a signature, and RFK Jr's nutrition theater

    Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 10 Date: 3/13/2026 Title:  Indiana’s 340B safety net under attack, syringe services survive without a signature, and RFK Jr's nutrition theater 00:00- Intro 2:01- SB 91 becomes a law without the signature of Governor Braun 5:13- Dolly Parton's Imagination Library almost funded despite no state government funds 6:50- Permanent injunction on the Indiana Abortion ban based on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (but it's not over 9:04- Vinay Prasad resigns from the FDA again 11:05- Another study debunks Tylenol-autism, FDA reverses guidance on leucovorin for autism, and new independent autism advisory panel 13:25- States passing laws protecting clinicians from lawsuits around vaccine confusion 14:34- HHS announces a nutrition education initiative for medical schools, includes Purdue University in the list of 40 schools that have signed on besides the fact that Purdue doesn't have a medical school 16:39- An interview with Alan Witchey, CEO of the Damien Center, about the importance of the 340B drug pricing program and its role in the care of vulnerable patients in Indiana- and a HUGE risk to that program as the result of a proposed regulation change by Indiana FSSA You should use this script to send an email comment on this proposed change before March 27! 37:58- 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

    39 min

  6. MAR 6

    End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana

    Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 9 Date: 3/6/2026 Title:  End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana 00:00- Intro 1:21- Good Trouble will have a call for new board members at the end of this month so look out in your email 1:49 GTC will also be hiring an executive director, so be looking for calls for that if it is something that might interest you 2:19- Donate to Good Trouble to help support this work! 3:24- Tracey makes her minor children work 4:12- Study in JAMA demonstrated that the 104 Indiana medical residency programs see 1,500 less applicants because of the abortion ban 8:01- More parents refusing vitamin K shots at birth (and why this is a terrible idea) 10:06- CDC report: number of women receiving prenatal care decreasing in Indiana 11:10- Ryan White HIV program reductions will lead to significant increases in HIV infections (and a primer on Ryan White) 14:53- Jerome Adams' mic drop tweet about the nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General 15:50- Overview of legislative session bills filed (741) and passed (163) 17:54- Big win bills: Gabe- SB 91 (syringe exchange); Tracey- the death of SB 236 (abortion) Big loss bills: Gabe- SB 285 (criminalizing homelessness); Tracey- SB1 (bad medicaid and SNAP changes) 21:45- Check your registration at the Indiana voter portal and watch motorsports 22:42- 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

    24 min

  7. FEB 27

    ACIP's weaponized incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and conference committee crunch before Sine Die

    Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 8 Date: 2/27/2026 Title:  Weaponized Incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and Conference Committee Crunch 00:00- Intro 00:50- Gabe's colonoscopy- "It was great" 1:53- NIH director named director of the CDC because finding competent people to run this mess is a fool's errand 3:30- NIH removes words "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from the NIH website 4:16- USPSTF, which dictates screening guidelines, appears to be at risk 6:00- ACIP meeting cancelled- weaponized incompetence 6:15- ACOG drops out of ACIP 7:33- Hepatitis B vaccine rates have plummeted in the last 2 years 8:37- Casey Means confirmation hearing for surgeon general- she is the Fyre Fest of surgeon general nominees- all style, no substance 13:01- Court case in Louisiana would restrict telehealth abortion access nationwide 15:29- Overview of how legislative conference committees work in Indiana 19:55- Language attempted to be put into HB 1417 to counter current lawsuit against the abortion ban (language was not allowed in) 21:01- SB 85, the medical debt bill, failed (for the 2nd straight year) 21:55- SB 91, the syringe exchange program, goes to the governor for signing (yay sort of!) 22:30- SB 1 passes, will kick people off of medicaid needlessly (actually to save the state money) and will cause big problems long term for the state 23:55- Take a deep breath in the weather AND call your federal senators and let them know Casey Means is a bad choice for surgeon general (numbers and script here) 24:32- 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

    26 min

  8. FEB 20

    The SAVE Act solves nothing, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again)

    Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 7 Date: 2/20/2026 Title:  The SAVE Act is dumb, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again) 00:00- Intro 1:30- The SAVE Act is a dumb bill because voter fraud with current processes is very very rare, as proven by our Attorney General 4:29- The Trump administration no longer thinks Greenhouse Gases can hurt humans 7:48- New study shows that expanding medicaid leads to less breast cancer deaths 8:54- Anti-vaccine groups targeting state-level school vaccine mandates 9:47- FDA reverses decision and will review the Moderna flu mRNA vaccine (and Gabe predicts this) 12:07- Judge reverses public health cuts to 4 states (and the vindictive nature of our current federal government is nauseating) 14:22- SB 91 (syringe service bill) was a good bill, amended to become a bad bill, re-amended to a meh bill 16:50- SB 275 (a bad bill which would allow cuts to home health rates for medicaid waivers) weakened with amendments in committee, is better but still not great 18:00- SB 139 (breastfeeding jury duty bill) continues it's unanimous tear through the statehouse 18:54- SB1 (a bad bill that will kick people off of medicaid and SNAP) to be voted on by the house next Tuesday (call your representative about this one) 19:14- Tracey introduces the word "germane" in discussion the death of SB 236 (a good thing) 22:13- things to do this week: be on alert for action alerts via email and call your rep about SB1 23:14- 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

    24 min
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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. 

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  • Creator
    The Good Trouble Coalition
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    45
  • Rating
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