Legislative halftime! Plus the AAP is now the source for vaccine info and jabronis doing jabroni things at HHS

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 making in the new CDC guidelines is problematic

6:03- Measles is rampant in South Carolina

7:50- ACIP chair doesn't think we need polio vaccine anymore

8:30- Texas attorney general is suing pediatricians for some sort of vaccine scheme (I have seen none of these monies)

10:14- The United States is no longer part of the World Health Organization

11:05- Hospitals in rural Indiana are hurting bad (due to bad health care funding policy)

13:10- Senate Bill 4 would reduce mental health funding

14:52- Guinea-Bissau refuses to do HHS funded study that would withhold hepatitis B vaccine from newborns (in a country in which the prevalence of Hepatitis B is 20%!)

18:05- Legislative halftime show (we are now only following 43 bills!)

20:28- Gabe likes SB 91, Tracey likes SB 139; Tracey doesn't like SB 236, Gabe doesn't like SB 275

25:26- Call your Representative about SB 236 and then take a break

26:04- Wrap-up

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