National update 7/11
First up this week, several national medical societies filed suit against the Secretary of Health and Human Services over the recently announced decision to limit access to Covid vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women. AAFP is not among them, but continues to work through advocacy to influence HHS.
An article in JAMA describing the declining health of US children in the years since 2007 was covered in the lay press.
The Oregon Capitol Chronicle ran an article by KFF reporters on how the recently-passed H.R. 1 will impact Americans beyond the individuals enrolled in Medicaid or receiving SNAP benefits.