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Hoosier Health Matters

The Good Trouble Coalition

Hoosier Health Matters focuses on the pressing health policy issues in Indiana and tries to make this stuff not boring. Hosted by Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson, board members of the Good Trouble Coalition, this podcast brings together healthcare and public health stakeholders to discuss, educate, and advocate for patient-centered care, public health, and health equity. It will focus on state-level health policies, legislative updates, and expert interviews.

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23:37

End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents...

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2026/03/06

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 9 Date: 3/6/2026 Title: End of session wrap-up and fewer medical residents want to come to Indiana 00:00- Intro 1:21- Good Trouble will have a call for new board members at the end of this month so look out in your email 1:49 GTC will also be hiring an executive director, so be looking for calls for that if it is something that might interest you 2:19- Donate to Good Trouble to help support this work! 3:24- Tracey makes her minor children work 4...

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25:46

ACIP's weaponized incompetence, the Fyre Fest of...

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2026/02/27

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 8 Date: 2/27/2026 Title: Weaponized Incompetence, the Fyre Fest of nominees, and Conference Committee Crunch 00:00- Intro 00:50- Gabe's colonoscopy- "It was great" 1:53- NIH director named director of the CDC because finding competent people to run this mess is a fool's errand 3:30- NIH removes words "biodefense" and "pandemic preparedness" from the NIH website 4:16- USPSTF, which dictates screening guidelines, appears to be at risk 6:00- ACIP m...

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24:05

The SAVE Act solves nothing, the EPA loses its mind,...

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2026/02/20

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 7 Date: 2/20/2026 Title: The SAVE Act is dumb, the EPA loses its mind, and SB 236 rises from the grave (but gets buried again) 00:00- Intro 1:30- The SAVE Act is a dumb bill because voter fraud with current processes is very very rare, as proven by our Attorney General 4:29- The Trump administration no longer thinks Greenhouse Gases can hurt humans 7:48- New study shows that expanding medicaid leads to less breast cancer deaths 8:54- Anti-vaccin...

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22:55

Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu...

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2026/02/13

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 6 Date: 2/13/2026 Title: Quacks gonna quack, FDA refuses to review large flu vaccine trial, and harm reduction harmed at Statehouse 00:00- Intro 2:13- FDA removes autism quackery website within weeks of autism quacks being named to Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee 3:47- Leucovorin as treatment for autism study retracted 5:00- South Carolina measles dashboard shows how effective the measles vaccine is 6:31- FDA refuses to re...

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30:34

No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s...

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2026/02/06

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 5 Date: 2/6/2026 Title: No shadow, no money, and no medicaid: Indiana’s Groundhog Day 00:00- Intro 1:10- Indiana's groundhog, Hope, from Hope, Indiana, did not see her shadow so 1:56- Executive order by Governor Braun to prevent fraud 3:52- Trump administration eliminated a rule that pharmacies must stock mifepristone, misoprostol, and methotraxate 4:47- Measles still bad in South Carolina, and a cool map that shows you measles...

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28:55

Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source...

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2026/01/30

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 4 Date: 1/30/2026 Title: Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS 00:00- Intro 1:36- Some thoughts about the murder of Alex Pretti 3:34- CDC databases about vaccines are not being updated 4:39- The American Academy of Pediatrics now provides the national vaccine schedule because the CDC is defunct and a terrific article by YLE about why the language around shared decision maki...

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34:05

An update on bills and an interview about SB 236,...

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2026/01/23

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 3 Date: 1/23/2026 Title: An update on bills and an interview about SB 236, which deals with pregnancy and is a problem for the entire house of medicine 00:00- Intro 1:38- United States' measles eradication status at risk 3:04- The White House released the "Great Healthcare Plan"- it is anything but 3:38- New study demonstrates that tylenol taken during pregnancy is not associated with autism 4:15- Senate Bill 91- syringe exchange program- an ame...

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24:22

SB1 will kick people off medicaid, Gabe and Tracey...

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2026/01/16

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 2 Date: 1/16/2026 Title: SB1 will kick people off medicaid, Gabe and Tracey argue about SB 221, and new batshit ACIP members 00:00- Intro 1:02- Indiana receives $207 million rural health fund grant 2:05- The flu is still bad. Get vaccinated if you aren't already. 2:59- U.S. set to lose measles eradication status 4:25- 2 new batshit members of ACIP 5:20- House of Representatives vote to pass ACA subsidy extension (using a discharge petition!) 7:0...

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23:16

Indiana opts out of Sunbucks again, the vertical flu...

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2026/01/09

Hoosier Health Matters Season 2, Episode 1 Date: 1/9/2026 Title: Indiana opts out of Sunbucks again, the vertical flu graph, and a fast-moving legislative session 00:00- Intro 1:08- Indiana opting out of SunBucks program, because they can't afford the $5 million to bring in $70 million to feed hungry children during the summer despite a newly announced $5 billion surplus 3:02- There is a lot of influenza in Indiana right now. If you aren't vaccinated yet, get vaccinated now. 5:06- HHS c...

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28:55

A legislative prep episode featuring a tenderloin

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2025/12/19

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 31 Date: 12/19/2025 Title: A legislative prep episode featuring a tenderloin 00:00- Intro 2:00- Indiana eschewed a redistricting push, 31-19 3:55- Indiana appellate court denies injunction in TPR case (this is good news)- and you can see the IDH's aggregate terminated pregnancy reports here 5:27- ACIP removes the recommendation for Hepatitis B vaccines at birth- a recommendation based more on vibes than science- good info here 7:23- ACA subsidy k...

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41:58

Taxing cigarettes reduces smoking (who knew?) and a...

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2025/12/05

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 30 Date: 12/5/2025 Title: Taxing cigarettes reduces smoking (who knew?) and an interview about a direct cash assistance program for pregnant women 00:00- Intro 1:21- The redistricting saga continues (and will be resolved by our next episode) 3:48- New tobacco tax has reduced tobacco consumption and increased tobacco tax revenue 5:24- Strain of H3N2 influenza has drifted and may be more infectious this season- check out the Indiana influenza dashb...

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43:48

Indiana Freezes Childcare Vouchers, Legislators...

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2025/11/14

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 29 Date: 11/14/2025 Title: Indiana Freezes Childcare Vouchers, Legislators Target Mifepristone, and Why Syringe Exchange Matters 00:00- Intro 2:15- we will not have an episode the week of Thanksgiving- will drop the week after (December 5) 2:28- Special Session to start November 18, end before December 12 and it will be a part of the 2026 session 5:09- Indiana freezing childcare vouchers until 2027- leaving 31,000 families on a wait list 7:15- ...

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26:38

Indiana’s Medical Debt Shrug, SNAP Shutdown, and all...

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2025/10/31

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 28 Date: 10/31/2025 Title: Indiana’s Medical Debt Shrug, SNAP Shutdown, and all you could want to know about FQHCs 00:00- Intro 3:05- They are going to try and re-gerrymander Indiana. Which is good for no one 4:50- The interim study committee on medical debt in Indiana released a report that said it was issuing no recommendations, despite the fact that 20% of Hoosiers have been reported to collections for medical debt 7:06- The firs...

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33:30

Why we stay in Indiana and why the government...

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2025/10/17

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 27 Date: 10/17/2025 Title: Why we stay in Indiana and why the government shutdown over public health is important 00:00- Intro 1:37- CDC director uses his best vibes to call for the separation of the MMR vaccine into three separate shots 2:19- CDC ACIP recommendations adopted, and they quietly walked back the "only risk factors under 60" recommendation to recommend it with shared decision-making 3:13- New study shows that, even in ...

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31:56

Tylenol, Leucovorin, and Mifepristone—When “science”...

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2025/10/03

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 26 Date: 10/3/2025 Title: Tylenol, Leucovorin, and Mifepristone—When “Science” Serves Politics, Not Patients 00:00- Intro 02:00- A school board north of Fort Wayne removes 6 books from the shelves, based on a gross misinterpretation of a sex ed law passed last year (SEA 442) 04:36- USDA no longer publishing gold standard food insecurity reports- we debunk the reasons why with the help of Katelyn Jenelina's Your Local Epidemiologist...

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36:30

Is gerrymandering a public health issue? (hint: yes)...

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2025/09/19

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 25 Date: 9/19/2025 Title: Is gerrymandering a public health issue? (hint: yes) and a family facing cuts to medicaid waivers In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss continued chaos at the CDC (evergreen topic). They then talk about the partisan effort to gerrymander and why it is a public health issue. They then interview Debby Holcombe, the mother of Michael who is on a home ventilator, abo...

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23:38

BONUS episode: Questions answered about getting...

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2025/09/12

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 24 Date: 9/12/2025 Title: BONUS episode: Questions answered about getting vaccines this fall In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson are joined by infectious disease physician Haley Pritchard and pharmacist Veronica Vernon to untangle the massive confusion that is vaccine policy this fall and answer questions about who should get the shot, who can get it, and try to discern why HHS did it this way. 00...

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37:39

The enshittification of the CDC and (unrelated) all...

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2025/09/05

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 23 Date: 9/5/2025 Title: The enshittification of the CDC and (unrelated) all you want to know about school based health centers In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss the continued systematic dismantling of expertise and value in the CDC, a form of enshittification (a real word). Then they talk with Dr. Meg Carlson about school-based health centers. 00:00- Intro 01:30- CDC director fired afte...

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42:46

Lived experience: an interview on the personal toll...

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2025/08/22

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 22 Date: 8/22/2025 Title: Lived experience: an interview on the personal toll of Indiana's reproductive politics In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss Indiana public health news and then talk with Amber and Michael Dowd, who share their story of navigating a devastating fetal anomaly diagnosis under Indiana’s abortion laws. Their experience highlights the emotional toll of reproductive polit...

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36:10

Climate change and public health, and some news

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2025/08/08

Hoosier Health Matters Season 1, Episode 21 Date: 8/8/2025 Title: Climate change and public health, and some news In this episode of Hoosier Health Matters, hosts Gabriel Bosslet and Tracey Wilkinson discuss 00:00- Intro 1:20- Tracey's state fair llama costume contest disappointment 3:28- $500 million in mRNA vaccine research cancelled and ACIP kicks out medical societies 6:48- New CDC director confirmed by the Senate 7:45- JAMA article shows 35% of OB/GYN physicians have left Ida...

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