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Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of December 8

Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of December 8

Senate fails to pass competing health care bills ahead of ACA subsidy expiration What’s happening: Both Republican and Democratic health care proposals failed to advance in the Senate on December...
Billions in Rural Health Funding Come with New Policy Strings Attached

Billions in Rural Health Funding Come with New Policy Strings Attached

The Trump administration’s $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program is drawing national attention for an unusual requirement: states must adopt specific federal policy priorities to gain access to the funding....
Why States Are Withholding Rural Health Transformation Fund Applications

Why States Are Withholding Rural Health Transformation Fund Applications

The Trump administration’s new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program promises “radical transparency,” yet many states are declining to release their full applications. The result is growing frustration among rural...

Headlines from DC

President Trump reclassifies cannabis as a Schedule III drug to expand medical research. More details here. Thursday, December 18, 2025
Both plans to fix the ACA Subsidy cliff fail in the Senate. Read more. Thursday, December 11, 2025
HHS vaccine panel votes to end newborn Hep B. recommendation. Read more. Friday, December 5, 2025
Rick Pazdur, the FDA’s top drug regulator has resigned. Read more. Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Whispers

Democrats are looking at the fire from their base around ACA subsidies and planning on doing polling around Medicare 4 All in 2026.

Polling has shifted and Obamacare has the best numbers since it was implemented over a decade ago. Republicans are realizing that this issue matters to their voters and are scrambling to salvage something…anything…but are lacking strategy.

President Trump was supposed to release his own framework for ACA subsidies today….but it went over like a fart in church with House Republicans pushing back hard.

From an admin insider: Chances of a deal on the ACA subsidies is small. Dems caved and lost. White House has had “Obamacare” in its sights for a long time. This might be the chance to mortally wound it.

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Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of December 8
Weekly Wrap Up

Weekly Wrap Up for the Week of December 8

Senate fails to pass competing health care bills ahead of ACA subsidy...

Billions in Rural Health Funding Come with New Policy Strings Attached
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Billions in Rural Health Funding Come with New Policy Strings Attached

The Trump administration’s $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program is drawing national...

Why States Are Withholding Rural Health Transformation Fund Applications
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Why States Are Withholding Rural Health Transformation Fund Applications

The Trump administration’s new $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program promises “radical...

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