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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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- South Carolina measles dashboard shows how effective the measles vaccine is

6:31- FDA refuses to review phase 3 trial from Moderna for an mRNA flu vaccine (which is bonkers it had 40,000 patients)

10:24- AMA partnering with the Vaccine Integrity Project

11:16- Maternity unit at Johnson Memorial health closes

12:18- SB 91, the syringe service program bill, amended in the House Public Health Committee in not good ways

18:03- SB 275 heard this week in Ways and Means and Gabe talks about testifying in opposition

21:14- Call your Indiana House Representative to ask them to return SB 91 to its original form (script here)

22:01- Wrap up

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