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

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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

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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

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