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Health Policy Changes

HHS, FDA, and NIH policy shifts, healthcare funding, and medical regulations.

  1. 2026

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    CBO Score OBBA Section 71116
    CMS-2449-P Federal Register: Medicaid Managed Care State Directed Payments
    KFF: Medicaid State-Directed Payments
    May 20

    CMS proposes $775B cap on Medicaid hospital payments

    $775B Medicaid payment rule threatens hospitals serving 75 million patients

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    Donald Trump
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    8 figures
    R.I. judge blocks DOJ from obtaining medical records of transgender youth
    Judge strikes down DOJ subpoena for RI Hospital pediatric medical records
    Potential False Claims Act Liability for Providers of Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
    May 13

    Federal judge quashes DOJ subpoena for transgender youth medical records

    Trump-appointed judge blocks DOJ demand for children's transgender medical records

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    8 figures
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    Mar 10

    Red states advance 200+ medication abortion restriction bills

    29 states targeting mifepristone through lawsuits, criminal charges, and controlled substance bans

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    Tyler Johnson
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    6 figures
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    ORR shelters block abortions for pregnant minors in Texas
    Pregnant Unaccompanied Minors in Federal Custody Face Abortion Restrictions
    Pregnant migrant girls are being sent to a Texas shelter flagged as medically risky
    Mar 4

    Trump sends all pregnant migrant girls to Texas shelter to block abortion access

    Girls as young as 13 sent to Texas where abortion is banned, seven ORR officials say

    Jim White
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    9 figures
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    Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: What It Does
    Vaccine Approval Process - FDA
    Administrative Procedure Act - Cornell Law School
    Jan 5

    RFK Jr. strips 7 childhood vaccines from US recommended list

    15 states sue to reverse the January 5 CDC decision memo

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    Jim O'Neill
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    8 figures
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Key figures in Health Policy Changes

38 figures
Donald Trump
President of the United States
ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project
Civil liberties organization preparing legal challenge
Ashley Thompson
Senior Vice President for Public Policy Analysis and Development, American Hospital Association
Bill Cassidy
U.S. Senator (R-LA), Chairman of Senate HELP Committee
Bruce Siegel
President and CEO, America's Essential Hospitals
Chiquita Brooks-LaSure
Former CMS Administrator, Biden administration (2021–2025)
Flores Agreement (binding settlement, 1997)
Legal framework governing rights of migrant children in federal custody
Greg Abbott
Governor of Texas
HHS Secretary (administration)
Secretary of Health and Human Services; ORR parent agency head
Jay Bhattacharya
Acting CDC Director (as of early 2026)
Jennifer Davenport
Acting New Jersey Attorney General
Jim O'Neill
Former Acting CDC Director
Jim White
Former ORR Director (Trump first term); child welfare expert
Joan Alker
Executive Director, Georgetown Center for Children and Families
Katelyn Medeiros
Rhode Island Child Advocate (2026)
Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General
Kevin Love Hubbard
Lawyers' Committee for Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)
Kimya Forouzan
Principal Policy Adviser for State Issues, Guttmacher Institute
Kris Mayes
Arizona Attorney General
Kristen Waggoner
CEO and President, Alliance Defending Freedom; lead legal strategist for medication abortion restrictions
Liz Brown
Indiana State Senator (R); co-author, SB 236
Lynette Labinger
ACLU of Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)
Mark McElroy
U.S. District Judge, District of Rhode Island (Trump appointee, confirmed September 2019)
Mehmet Oz
CMS Administrator, 2025–present
Mike Crapo
Chairman, Senate Finance Committee, 2025–present
Miriam Weizenbaum
Lawyers' Committee for Rhode Island Cooperating Attorney (2026)
NPR and California Newsroom reporters
Investigative journalists who broke story using federal contracting records and anonymous sources
Pam Bondi
U.S. Attorney General (confirmed January 2025)
Reed O'Connor
Chief U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Texas (George W. Bush appointee)
Rick Garcia
U.S. Representative (D-CA), Ranking Member, House Oversight Committee
Rob Bonta
California Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ron Wyden
Ranking Member, Senate Finance Committee
Thomas Pressly
Louisiana State Senator (R-Shreveport); author of SB 276, the first state law classifying mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances
Tyler Johnson
Indiana State Senator (R); emergency room physician; lead sponsor, SB 236
Unaccompanied pregnant minors in federal custody
Direct subjects of policy
Urban Strategies
For-profit ORR shelter contractor operating San Benito facility
William Tong
Connecticut Attorney General