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Julie Rovner
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Chief Washington Correspondent KFF Health News, Host "What the Health?" podcast/horseperson/corgimomx2/unapologetic Michigan fan.

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Julie Rovner is an American journalist and author. Currently the Chief Washington Correspondent for Kaiser Health News (KHN) and host of its podcast, "What the Health", Rovner previously reported for National Public Radio, National Journal's Congress Daily, Congressional Quarterly, and The Lancet. .. more

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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 7h
Trump, the oldest man ever elected president, is showing more signs of age and fatigue. His official schedule starts later in the day and he has held 39% fewer public events than during the same period in his first term. @katierogersnyt.bsky.social Dylan Freedman www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Shorter Days, Signs of Fatigue: Trump Faces Realities of Aging in Office
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11h
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 13h
For your TG traveling pleasure: An early #WTHealth this week, with @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @sandhyawrites.bsky.social, and @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social. Plus @joannekenen.bsky.social and @drjoshs.bsky.social on their new book, "Information Sick." kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...
Trump Almost Unveils a Health Plan  - KFF Health News
Just weeks before some tax credits for Affordable Care Act premiums expire, the Trump administration floated a plan to extend the enhanced aid — but it was met with immediate GOP pushback. Meanwhile, ...
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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 2d
My assistants once again sleeping on the job…

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d
I think @proptermalone.bsky.social can declare victory on his prediction that the GOP was eager to find a way to extend ACA subsidies (even if they've gone about it in a VERY dumb way). Two year extension + following details in the White House plan.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
The White House plan is expected to include new income caps for enrollees to qualify for the ACA tax credits as well as minimum premium payments, according to the two people with direct knowledge of the proposal. The planned eligibility cap would limit the subsidies to individuals with income up to 700 percent of the federal poverty line —aligning with what a bipartisan group of senators have been discussing separately, according to a fourth person granted anonymity to share knowledge of the negotiations. Enrollees would also pay a minimum premium payment — a nod to concerns from conservatives that millions of Americans pay nothing in premiums while being unaware they are enrolled in ACA insurance plans. The White House’s plan would call on Congress to appropriate funds for cost-sharing reductions, which would reduce out-of-pocket health costs for ACA plans. The administration is also set to propose an option for enrollees to receive part of their tax credit in a tax-advantaged savings account if they move down to a lower-premium health plan. Many Republicans lawmakers favor the idea as a way to provide funds directly to people, as opposed to relying on indirect subsidies to insurance companies to drive down health costs. Trump himself has publicly endorsed the concept.

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xpostfactoid @xpostfactoid.bsky.social · 5d
Hey, the bipartisan Problem Solvers are really trying to...solve a problem!

They have a bill to restore and slightly trim the enhanced ACA subsidies, and it's good.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/on-earth-2...
On Earth 2, a rational compromise for Obamacare
Surprise! The Problem Solvers come up with a...problem solver
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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 6d
New #WTHealth podcast up: @joannekenen.bsky.social, @shefali.bsky.social and Paige Cunningham on what the GOP really wants on health care, how the D's may well have won the shutdown, and an interview with @avik.bsky.social on possibilities for bipartisanship...
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The GOP Circles the Wagons on ACA - KFF Health News
Republicans are solidifying their opposition to extending pandemic-era subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans and seem to be coalescing around giving money directly to consumers to spend on health ca...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 9d
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 10d
It’s not all politics for me. Aspen finished her Open FAST title in agility today!

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 12d
Mafia governance in action

"the only offer on the table was that I needed to resign by 5pm that day or the DOJ would basically rain hell on UVA... If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13d
NEW: With Trump having signed the bill ending the shutdown, and SNAP benefits fully funded again, DOJ withdraws its SCOTUS stay request in the SNAP benefits case.

"Because the underlying dispute here is now moot, the government withdraws its November 7 stay application in this Court."
U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Solicitor General Washington, D.C. 20530 November 13, 2025 Honorable Scott S. Harris Clerk Supreme Court of the United States Washington, D.C. 20543 Re: Rollins, et al. v. Rhode Island State Council of Churches, et al., No. 25A539 Dear Mr. Harris: On November 7, we filed in the above-captioned case an application for a stay of the orders issued by the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island, along with a request for an immediate administrative stay of those orders as this Court considered that application. Those orders required the government to redirect billions of dollars in order to fund full SNAP payments for the month of November by November 7. On that day, this Court issued an administrative stay of the district court's orders; and on November 11, this Court extended that stay through midnight tonight. Since then, Congress has passed, , and President Trump has signed, a bill that put an end to the government shutdown. That law, among other things, fully funds SNAP through the end of the fiscal year. See Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026, H.R. 5371, 119th Cong. div. B, tit. IV (enacted Nov. 12, 2025). Because the underlying dispute here is now moot, the government withdraws its November 7 stay application in this Court. Sincerely, D. John Sauer Solicitor General cc: See Attached Service List

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Erica Meltzer @ericameltzer.bsky.social · 14d
After the Supreme Court tied on religious charters, Alliance Defending Freedom asked a Colorado school district lawyer to initiate a "parallel case," according to emails obtained by Chalkbeat. A self-described Christian public school opened a few months later. www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/202...
Christian law firm sought Colorado test case for religious public schools, emails suggest
Alliance Defending Freedom approached a Colorado lawyer about starting a school in Colorado to spark a legal test of publicly funded religious education, according to an email authored by the lawyer.
www.chalkbeat.org

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 16d
New at Can We Still Govern? New Medicaid work requirements will see an estimated 5 million lose coverage.
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
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Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 19d
In this special episode of “What the Health?” from KFF Health News and WAMU, host @julierovner.bsky.social talks to @cynthiaccox.bsky.social of @kff.org about the state of the Affordable Care Act. https://bit.ly/4813Bad
The State of the Affordable Care Act - KFF Health News
Nov. 1 marked the start of open enrollment for 2026 health plans bought from Affordable Care Act marketplaces in most states. But this sign-up season is like no other in the health law’s 15-year histo...
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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 20d
Hello from Paris, where I am taking a break from the ACA and shutdown mess.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21d
This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
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James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 21d
A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.

(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
Spanberger v. Earle-Sears exit poll Men 18-29: Spanberger 56%; Earle-Sears 42%

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 22d
TIL the Post has added, inline in their articles, an AI chatbot pop-up that invites you to ask questions of the gibberish machine that makes up facts.

Thanks, I hate it.

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Molly Roberts @mollyroberts.bsky.social · 22d
The officer Sandwich Guy is charged with assaulting testifies that he could feel the impact of the sandwich through his ballistic vest, and it “exploded all over my uniform.” He says he could “smell the onions and the mustard.”

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Jamie Gangel @jamiegangel.bsky.social · 22d
New: Liz Cheney on her father, “Country over Party”

www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...
‘Country over party’: How Dick Cheney helped Liz Cheney stand up to Donald Trump | CNN Politics
One year after Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, former Vice President Dick Cheney joined his daughter Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on the floor of the House to take a l...
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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 23d
i do not. there have been lots of differences between state officials and CMS (formerly HCFA) leaders, but not on this level, at least not since I've been covering (from the end of the Reagan era)

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 23d
Fact check: true!

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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 23d
ICYMI, Trump posted that he wanted to fund SNAP "as soon as possible . . . [i]f we are given the appropriate legal direction."

So a federal judge said "here's the legal direction" and ordered either full payment by today or partial by Wednesday.

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Also, the President of the United States stated Friday evening that: I do not want Americans to go hungry . . . [I] ask the Court to clarify how we can legally fund SNAP as soon as possible. . . . If we are given the appropriate legal direction by the Court, it will BE MY HONOR to provide the funding . . . Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), Truth Social (Oct. 31, 2025, at 6:10 PM).1 So, here’s the ORDER and here’s the legal direction from the Court.2 Having reviewed the Complaint, Motion, Memorandum of Law, Declarations, and evidence in support of the Motion, as well as the papers filed in opposition to this Motion, and 1 The Court greatly appreciates the President’s quick and definitive response to this Court’s Order and his desire to provide the necessary SNAP funding.

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · 27d
first #WTHealth podcast with our new distribution partner @wamu.org! Find us now on the NPR app, or wherever you get your podcasts!
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Happy Open Enrollment Eve! - KFF Health News
A standoff in Congress is keeping much of the government shut down as open enrollment begins in most states for Affordable Care Act plans. Democrats are demanding Republicans agree to extend ACA tax c...
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 28d
I see we’ve entered the “don’t worry, we have a magical Obamacare alternative” stage of the debate www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...
The Republican Health Care Trap, Episode 78
As the shutdown drags on, the GOP croons its old tune: replacing Obamacare.
www.thebulwark.com

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · Oct 23
new #WTHealth podcast up! @shefali.bsky.social, @alicemiranda.bsky.social, and @rachelroubein.bsky.social on the latest shutdown news, Trump's IVF policy, and immigration and health care. Plus the latest "bill of the month."
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Nutrition Programs Face Their Own Shutdown - KFF Health News
Two major nutrition programs — SNAP and WIC — are likely to exhaust their funding in November, and the furloughs and firings at the CDC have left the agency unable to perform some of its major functio...
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11thhourmsnow.bsky.social @11thhourmsnow.bsky.social · Oct 18
"That's the big irony here - Democrats are fighting hard to basically save health insurance for a pretty Republican group of people."

@julierovner.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social discuss who relies on the Affordable Care Act as the shutdown stalemate over its subsidies drags on.

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · Oct 17
apparently we are having the entire ACA debate over again. Sigh.
steventdennis.bsky.social Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · Oct 17
On X, Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for changing the Essential Health Benefits part of the Affordable Care Act, deleting requirements to cover maternity, pregnancy, mental illness and children etc

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Steven T. Dennis @steventdennis.bsky.social · Oct 17
On X, Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for changing the Essential Health Benefits part of the Affordable Care Act, deleting requirements to cover maternity, pregnancy, mental illness and children etc

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Julie Rovner @julierovner.bsky.social · Oct 16
new #WTHealth up! @laurenweberhp.bsky.social, @annaedney.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social and I on shutdown latest, another Rx deal for Trump, and layoffs at HHS. Plus @louisenorris.bsky.social on Medicare Open Enrollment for 2026.
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Schrödinger’s Government Shutdown - KFF Health News
Democrats and Republicans remain stalled over funding the federal government as Republicans launch a new attack on the Affordable Care Act. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is taking advantage of t...
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