{"id":5488,"date":"2025-05-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5488"},"modified":"2025-05-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T09:00:00","slug":"journalists-explore-medicaid-work-rules-cdc-layoffs-and-rfk-jr-s-maha-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=5488","title":{"rendered":"Journalists Explore Medicaid Work Rules, CDC Layoffs, and RFK Jr.\u2019s \u2018MAHA\u2019 Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani gave an update on how Ohio is using its opioid settlement funds on WOSU Public Media\u2019s \u201cAll Sides with Amy Juravich\u201d on April 30. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wosu.org\/show\/all-sides\/2025-04-30\/update-on-ohios-opioid-settlement-funds\">Click here to hear Pattani on \u201cAll Sides with Amy Juravich.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Pattani\u2019s coverage of opioid settlements in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/opioid-settlements\/\">Payback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News chief Washington correspondent Julie Rovner discussed the future of the Affordable Care Act on April 23, for C-SPAN\u2019s \u201cWashington Journal.\u201d She also discussed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u2019s \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d tour on WNYC\u2019s \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show\u201d on April 15.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.c-span.org\/program\/washington-journal\/julie-rovner-on-the-future-of-the-affordable-care-act\/658942\">Click here to watch Rovner on \u201cWashington Journal.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/story\/meta-trial-rfk-jrs-maha-tour-climate-cuts-nyc-advice-international-travelers\/\">Click here to hear Rovner on \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News Southern correspondent Sam Whitehead discussed Medicaid work requirements on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on April 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-04-18\/georgia-health-report-the-push-for-medicaid-work-requirements\">Click here to hear Whitehead on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Whitehead\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/medicaid-work-requirements-job-training-programs-effectiveness\/\">States Push Medicaid Work Rules, but Few Programs Help Enrollees Find Jobs<\/a>,\u201d with reporting from Phil Galewitz and Katheryn Houghton.<\/p>\n<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Renuka Rayasam discussed layoffs at the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on WUGA\u2019s \u201cThe Georgia Health Report\u201d on April 4.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wuga.org\/show\/wuga-health-desk\/2025-04-04\/georgia-health-report-the-latest-lay-offs-by-the-trump-administration\">Click here to hear Rayasam on \u201cThe Georgia Health Report.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read Rachana Pradhan and Brett Kelman\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/hhs-firings-federal-health-agencies-foia-requests-public-records\/\">Firings at Federal Health Agencies Decimate Offices That Release Public Records<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\">KFF Health News<\/a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF\u2014an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\">KFF<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>USE OUR CONTENT<\/h3>\n<p>This story can be republished for free (<a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/on-the-air-this-week-may-3-2025-opioid-payback-maha-medicaid-work-requirements\/view\/republish\/\">details<\/a>).<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KFF Health News senior correspondent Aneri Pattani gave an update on how Ohio is using its opioid settlement funds on WOSU Public Media\u2019s \u201cAll Sides with Amy Juravich\u201d on April 30. Click here to hear Pattani on \u201cAll Sides with Amy Juravich.\u201d Read Pattani\u2019s coverage of opioid settlements in \u201cPayback: Tracking the Opioid Settlement Cash.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}