Julie Rovner
@julierovner.bsky.social
Chief Washington Correspondent KFF Health News, Host "What the Health?" podcast/horseperson/corgimomx2/unapologetic Michigan fan.
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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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November 26, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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...
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Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
November 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Now we have the president calling a female New York Times reporter ugly because he's mad about a story she wrote.
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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November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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...
My assistants once again sleeping on the job…
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
My assistants once again sleeping on the job…
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Friends don't let friends who can't explain silver-loading write about appropriating funds for cost-sharing reductions
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.
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November 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Friends don't let friends who can't explain silver-loading write about appropriating funds for cost-sharing reductions
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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.
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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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November 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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...
They have a bill to restore and slightly trim the enhanced ACA subsidies, and it's good.
xpostfactoid.substack.com/p/on-earth-2...
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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November 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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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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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November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
It’s not all politics for me. Aspen finished her Open FAST title in agility today!
November 16, 2025 at 9:11 PM
It’s not all politics for me. Aspen finished her Open FAST title in agility today!
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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."
"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."
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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."
"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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Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
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.
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November 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Amazing reporting from @chalkbeat.org: Christian Nationalist law firm Alliance Defending Freedom was involved in setting up Colorado's first "Christian public school" specifically so it could get another case to the Supreme Court over whether public money can fund religious schools
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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."
"Because the underlying dispute here is now moot, the government withdraws its November 7 stay application in this Court."
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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."
"Because the underlying dispute here is now moot, the government withdraws its November 7 stay application in this Court."
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This work is so important, especially in the context of how modestly (if at all) outreach efforts improve retention.
Also important: the work requirements that need to be implemented by the end of next year may prove much harder to automate than standard eligibility redeterminations
Also important: the work requirements that need to be implemented by the end of next year may prove much harder to automate than standard eligibility redeterminations
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 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Small investments in in-house tech capacity could allow states to start preparing now to expand automatic renewal of clients. Here is the evidence 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-a-van-...
Lessons from Pandemic Era Medicaid Automation for Work Requirements
Small tech capacity investments offer big returns
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November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This work is so important, especially in the context of how modestly (if at all) outreach efforts improve retention.
Also important: the work requirements that need to be implemented by the end of next year may prove much harder to automate than standard eligibility redeterminations
Also important: the work requirements that need to be implemented by the end of next year may prove much harder to automate than standard eligibility redeterminations
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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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November 7, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Hello from Paris, where I am taking a break from the ACA and shutdown mess.
November 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hello from Paris, where I am taking a break from the ACA and shutdown mess.
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A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
November 5, 2025 at 1:18 AM
A moment of silence, please, for the "young men are all MAGA now" narrative.
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
(Source: www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...)
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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.
Thanks, I hate it.
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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.
Thanks, I hate it.
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Imagining Homer Simpson on the jury, drooling and saying “mmmhhhm projectile sandwich”
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.”
November 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Imagining Homer Simpson on the jury, drooling and saying “mmmhhhm projectile sandwich”
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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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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.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreif3bu5vntalhpnkici3obgko2pk66tq25fd2yq7e3bwarrhrdzeqm@jpeg)
November 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
So a federal judge said "here's the legal direction" and ordered either full payment by today or partial by Wednesday.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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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October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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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Just in time!
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.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Just in time!
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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October 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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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"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.
@julierovner.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social discuss who relies on the Affordable Care Act as the shutdown stalemate over its subsidies drags on.
October 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
"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.
@julierovner.bsky.social and @crampell.bsky.social discuss who relies on the Affordable Care Act as the shutdown stalemate over its subsidies drags on.