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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: Who Will Run the Biden Health Effort?


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The quadrennial guessing game about who will get what health job in a new presidential administration has taken on a new urgency in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage.

Meanwhile, as two promising vaccine candidates inch closer to approval, the federal government is gearing up for the immense effort of delivering two shots to as many Americans as they can.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of Kaiser Health News, Margot Sanger-Katz of The New York Times, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico and Paige Winfield Cunningham of The Washington Post.

Among the takeaways from this week’s podcast:

Also this week, Rovner interviews KHN’s Julie Appleby, who wrote the latest KHN-NPR “Bill of the Month” feature — about a boy, a bicycle accident and a really big bill. If you have an outrageous medical bill you’d 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: ProPublica’s “States With Few Coronavirus Restrictions Are Spreading the Virus Beyond Their Borders,” by David Armstrong

Margot Sanger-Katz: Science Magazine’s “Public Needs to Prep for Vaccine Side Effects,” by Meredith Wadman

Paige Winfield Cunningham: Politico’s “Biden’s Chief of Staff Has Battled Pandemics Before. Here’s How He Plans to Beat This One,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein

Alice Miranda Ollstein: The New York Times’ “Prisons Are Covid-19 Hotbeds. When Should Inmates Get the Vaccine?” by Roni Caryn Rabin


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This story was produced by KHN (Kaiser Health News), a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues. Together with Policy Analysis and Polling, KHN is one of the three major operating programs at KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation). KFF is an endowed nonprofit organization providing information on health issues to the nation.

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