{"id":2126620,"date":"2025-12-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/?p=2126620&post_type=podcast&preview_id=2126620"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:49:08","slug":"what-the-health-425-republicans-obamacare-aca-subsidies-cdc-fda-vaccines-december-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/podcast\/what-the-health-425-republicans-obamacare-aca-subsidies-cdc-fda-vaccines-december-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Health? From KFF Health News: The GOP Still Can’t Agree on a Health Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Senate is scheduled to vote in the coming days on a Democrat-led plan to extend the temporary additional subsidies that have lowered out-of-pocket costs for Affordable Care Act health plans. But even with the vote approaching, Republicans in the House and Senate are divided over what, if any, alternative plan they should offer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, anti-vaccine forces at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have both agencies in disarray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week\u2019s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Politico Magazine, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Among the takeaways from this week\u2019s episode:<\/p>\n\n\n\n