How Trump’s Tariffs Will Hit Healthcare

America Dissected

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Politics, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Abdul and Katelyn discuss the latest news in health and policy, including: The third measles death this year - an 8-year-old girl in Texas RFK Jr’s weak response to the measles outbreak The impact of tariffs on healthcare and insurance prices Why Medicare and Medicaid won’t expand access to GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic A federal ruling that restores funding to research labs for “indirect costs” Then Abdul sits down with an old friend, Scott Hugo, who has been battling Long Covid for more than a year. Abdul and Scott discuss how his life has dramatically changed by this illness, and the fallout from the Trump Administration’s decision to cut Long Covid research. Check out our shop at store.americadissected.com for our new America Dissected merch – including logo shirts, hoodies and mugs. And don’t miss our “Vaccines Matter. Science Works.” t-shirts! This show would not be possible without the generous support of our sponsors. America Dissected invites you to check them out. This episode was brought to you by: de Beaumont Foundation: The foundation advances policy, builds partnerships, and strengthens systems to give everyone the opportunity to achieve their best possible health. To learn more, visit debeaumont.org. Quince: Go to Quince.com/AD for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order.

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0:00.0	Measles claims another young life.
0:11.1	Terrorists hit the health care system and everything else.
0:14.2	And Medicare says no to GLP1 agonists.
0:17.0	This is American Dissected.
0:18.2	I'm your host, Dr. Abdu Al-Wale-Sayette.
0:20.1	And I'm your co-host, Dr. Caitlin Janalina.
0:22.4	And we're recording this on Tuesday, April 8th at 9 p.m. Eastern Time, where tariffs are tinking the global economy.
0:33.1	This week, it's National Public Health Week.
0:35.8	So, friends, we feel your pain.
0:38.8	We appreciate your struggle.
0:40.5	And we salute you.
0:41.8	But it is absolutely deeply hard to celebrate after just another exhausting week for public health.
0:47.8	Before we get to the news, I want to take just a minute to acknowledge just what's happening here with a bit of a temp check.
0:55.8	Caitlin, what's your temperature? Temperature's not good. It's, it's been really, really hard. And, you know, I keep
1:02.9	having conversations with a lot of my public health colleagues, obviously. And I think the general
1:08.1	consensus, and I totally agree with this, Abdul, I'm actually curious what you think from your position, is that like, this is harder than COVID, honestly. And I think the reason for that is because COVID, there was like one nemesis, right? Like there's one problem we need to solve. And we're all, the whole world was hyper focused on that problem.
1:30.3	Now we are fighting fires in literally every direction.
1:34.3	Like I'm so overwhelmed.
1:35.3	I don't know what plug to put my hands over it in this ship.
1:43.3	I mean, people are getting laid off from work and from jobs.
1:47.3	Senior leadership has gone. HHS has been restructured. Departments are being combined.
1:53.4	USAID is gone. There's major cuts to the VA. All of this to say that also, hey, we're having
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