#22: Project 2025 Impact on Healthcare, Women's Health and Regulation

Subscribe here  to the Global Health Conversations Newsletter Read the full Project 2025 document here: Mandate for Leadership the Conservative PromiseIn this fortnight's episode, we explore Project 2025's proposed policies, which could dramatically impact health, women’s health and safety. The plan includes lifetime caps on Medicaid, reducing coverage for millions, and increased out-of-pocket costs for Medicare recipients. It threatens reproductive rights and seeks to curtail the CDC's public health role, potentially weakening responses to health crises. Basically, an anti-epidemic preparedness vision and plan. The changes could result in higher healthcare costs and reduced access to essential services for women and vulnerable populations​Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 02:00 - Preamble 02:56 - Project 2025 High Level Overview 08:55 - Point 1: Changes to Medicaid, Medicare & Lower income patients14:20 - Point 2: Impact on Public Health & the new role of the CDC 17:06 - Point 3: Food and Drug regulation proposed changes 22:05 - Point 4: Any comments on Safety, Guns and Ammunition?24:09 - Point 5: Restrictions around Women’s health, access to birth control & more Support the show