Hoosier Health Matters

Gabe and Tracey quickly introduce this year's GTC candidate database , which reviews all 276 legislative candidates for office in Indiana and which ones align with GTC values. 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 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 peopl...

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- India...

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 Cour...

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 impacte...

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 gen...

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- I...

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 chi...

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 vacc...

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-...

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 "nuc...

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 M...

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 be...

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...

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 Imagina...

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 cl...

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 In...

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- Do...

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 "pa...

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-...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 6 Date: 2/13/2026 Title:   Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu vaccine trial, and harm reduction harmed at Statehouse 00:00- Intro 2:13-  FDA removes autism quackery website within weeks of autism quacks being named to Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee   3:47- Leucovorin as treatment for autism study retracted 5:00- S outh Carolina m...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 5 Date: 2/6/2026 Title:   No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day 00:00- Intro  1:10- Indiana's groundhog, Hope, from Hope, Indiana, did not see her shadow so  1:56- Executive order by Governor Braun to prevent fraud  3:52- Trump administration eliminated a rule that pharmacies must stock mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotraxat...

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...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 3 Date: 1/23/2026 Title:   An update on bills and an interview about SB 236, which deals with pregnancy and is a problem for the entire house of medicine 00:00- Intro 1:38- United States' measles eradication status at risk 3:04- The White House released the " Great Healthcare Plan "- it is anything but 3:38- New study demonstrates that tyleno...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 2 Date: 1/16/2026 Title:   SB1 will kick people off medicaid, Gabe and Tracey argue about SB 221, and new batshit ACIP members 00:00- Intro 1:02- Indiana receives $207 million rural health fund grant 2:05- The flu is still bad . Get vaccinated if you aren't already. 2:59- U.S. set to lose measles eradication status 4:25- 2 new batshit members of ACIP 5...