Hoosier Health Matters

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...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 1 Date: 1/9/2026 Title:   Indiana opts out of Sunbucks again, the vertical flu graph, and a fast-moving legislative session 00:00- Intro 1:08- Indiana opting out of SunBucks program , because they can't afford the $5 million to bring in $70 million to feed hungry children during the summer despite a newly announced $5 billion surplus 3:02- There is a l...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 31 Date: 12/19/2025 Title:   A legislative prep episode featuring a tenderloin 00:00- Intro 2:00- Indiana eschewed a redistricting push, 31-19 3:55- Indiana appellate court denies injunction in TPR case (this is good news)- and you can see the IDH's aggregate terminated pregnancy reports here 5:27- ACIP removes the recommendation for Hepatitis B vaccin...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 30 Date: 12/5/2025 Title:   Taxing cigarettes reduces smoking (who knew?) and an interview about a direct cash assistance program for pregnant women 00:00- Intro 1:21- The redistricting saga continues (and will be resolved by our next episode) 3:48- New tobacco tax has reduced tobacco consumption and increased tobacco tax revenue 5:24- Strain of H3N2 influe...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 29 Date: 11/14/2025 Title:   Indiana Freezes Childcare Vouchers, Legislators Target Mifepristone, and Why Syringe Exchange Matters 00:00- Intro 2:15- we will not have an episode the week of Thanksgiving- will drop the week after (December 5) 2:28- Special Session to start November 18, end before December 12 and it will be a part of the 2026 session 5:09- In...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 28  Date: 10/31/2025  Title:   Indiana’s Medical Debt Shrug, SNAP Shutdown, and all you could want to know about FQHCs 00:00- Intro 3:05- They are going to try and re-gerrymander Indiana. Which is good for no one 4:50- The interim study committee on medical debt in Indiana released a report that said it was issuing no recommendations, despite the fact that...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 27  Date: 10/17/2025  Title:   Why we stay in Indiana and why the government shutdown over public health is important 00:00- Intro 1:37- CDC director uses his best vibes to call for the separation of the MMR vaccine into three separate shots 2:19- CDC ACIP recommendations adopted, and they quietly walked back the "only risk factors under 60" recom...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 26  Date: 10/3/2025  Title:   Tylenol, Leucovorin, and Mifepristone—When “Science” Serves Politics, Not Patients 00:00- Intro 02:00- A school board north of Fort Wayne removes 6 books from the shelves , based on a gross misinterpretation of a sex ed law passed last year (SEA 442) 04:36- USDA no longer publishing gold standard food insecurity reports - we de...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 25 Date: 9/19/2025 Title:   Is gerrymandering a public health issue? (hint: yes) and a family facing cuts to medicaid waivers In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss continued chaos at the CDC (evergreen topic). They then talk about the partisan effort to gerrymander and why it is a public health issue....