Trump's Deregulation Era & The Big Budget Reconciliation's Health Care Impact w/ Katie Keith

05/16/25 • 23 min

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Health Affairs' Jeff Byers welcomes Katie Keith of Georgetown Law back to the pod to discuss President Trump's potential changes to the rulemaking process, how that may impact rulemaking at HHS, and break down the house Republican budget reconciliation bill and the impacts it could have on Medicaid and more.

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Health Affairs This Week - Trump's Deregulation Era & The Big Budget Reconciliation's Health Care Impact w/ Katie Keith

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Jeff Byers00:00:39.881

Hello, and welcome to Health Affairs This Week. I'm your host, Jeff Beyers. We're recording on Tuesday, 05/13/2025. I know I've talked about the May 29 event for insiders on the changes at the FDA coming up quite a bit. Sign up for that. But today, I wanted to highlight that next week, we are releasing as part of our insider program, our first trend report for insiders. It's on the use of AI in healthcare, and you don't wanna miss that. In addit