Hoosier Health Matters

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 8 Date: 3/21/2025 Title: The evolution of medicaid reform, horse dentists, and harm reduction In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss how SB2 (medicaid reform) has changed as it has traversed the legislature. They discuss the Senate floor testimony about SCR 24 (crisis pregnancy centers), and how Senator Yoder pointed out that horse dentists are more closely regulated in Indiana than pregnancy ce...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 7 Date: 3/14/2025 Title: Navigating Indiana's legislative website (it's easy!) and the harm of crisis pregnancy centers in Indiana In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss how to find information about bills on the Indiana General Assembly website (which is one of the best in the country) and talk about Senate Concurrent Resolution 24, which commends Crisis Pregnancy Centers. They interview Dr. Eri...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 6 Date: 3/7/2025 Title: A good executive order, SB 289 takes medical education back 2 decades, and Maternal Mortality Review Committees In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss give kudos to Governor Braun for an executive order that beefs up parental leave for Indiana state employees. They then talk about one of the less controversial parts of SB 289 that would nonetheless completely change the face...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 5 Date: 2/28/2025 Title: Dolly Parton teaches us about budget values, abolishing the menstruation tax, and the Leeroy Jenkins approach to public health at HHS In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson take a halftime bird's eye view of the Indiana legislative session. They talk about how Dolly Parton has felt compelled to call out the Indiana legislature for excluding her Imagination Library from their bu...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 4 Date: 2/21/2025 Title: Halftime lookback, update on TPR case, and Hoosier public health funding In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson look back at the first half of the legislative session with some bill updates and a discussion of the dead bills they will miss and the dead bills they are happy are dead. They also give an update on the Terminated Pregnancy Report court case (including a tempor...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 3 Date: 2/14/2025 Title: A contraception bill gone wrong, Indiana medicaid, and NIH funding controversy In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss House Bill 1169, which was authored to improve access to contraception for low-income Hoosiers, but was amended to do very little and redefine birth control in the code to exclude, well, a lot. They also interview Drs. David Craig and Ivan Douglas Hicks t...

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 2 Date: 2/7/2025 Title: Three bills, a cancelled conference, and the state of science in America In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson three health policy bills heard in the last two weeks in the Indiana legislature. One (SB 370) deals with medicaid costs for outpatient procedures (which Gabe calls the "Tracey colonoscopy bill"). Gabe talks to Senator Fady Qaddoura about SB 317, which tackles medical ...

Hoosier Health MattersSeason 1, Episode 1Date: 1/31/2025Title: Thus it BeginsIn this inaugural episode of Hoosier Health Matters, host Gabriel Bosslet and guest Tracey Wilkinson from the Good Trouble Coalition discuss the current Indiana legislative session, focusing on key health policy issues. They provide an overview of the legislative process, highlight significant bills such as Senate Bill 475 regarding non-compete clauses for physicians, and address the implications of recent executive ...