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KHN’s ‘What The Health?’: Fact-Checking President Trump’s State Of The Union


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President Donald Trump had a lot to say about health care in his State of the Union address Tuesday night — not all of it completely accurate. Meanwhile, the Iowa Democratic Party found itself unable to count the votes from its presidential caucuses, leaving in question exactly how health care factors into voters’ choices of candidates.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Kimberly Leonard of the Washington Examiner and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.

Among the takeaways from this week’s podcast:

Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Julie Appleby and NPR’s Selena Simmons-Duffin, who reported the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment about a fight between an insurance company and a hospital over a $41,000 bill for an out-of-network emergency appendectomy. If you have an outrageous medical bill you would like to share with us, you can do that here.

Plus, for extra credit, the panelists recommend their favorite health policy stories of the week they think you should read too:

Julie Rovner: The New York Times’ “How Chaos at Chain Pharmacies Is Putting Patients at Risk,” by Ellen Gabler

Kimberly Leonard: The Nashville Tennessean’s “Gov. Bill Lee Proposes Extending Postpartum TennCare Coverage to a Full Year,” by Brett Kelman

Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Washington Post’s “States Scramble to Carry Out Trump’s Coronavirus Travel Order,” by Lena H. Sun, Lori Aratani, William Wan and Antonio Olivo

Margot Sanger-Katz: The New York Times’ “Pets Are Just ‘Property,’ So Owners Can’t Do Much When Vets Harm Them,” by Mike Baker


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