S2.E13. A Little Breather + A Season Update

Later this season, we are going to dig into the changes coming to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act exchange, courtesy of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

There are so many pieces to this.

It will be a multi-episode series.

We will also talk about midwifery and doula care, something the both of us have a lot of experience with.

Right.

And there's also a lot of mental health policy to discuss.

So, for example, there is this legal mess around two mental health grant programs through the Department of Education.

And you may remember in the news, Bobby and the WWE's Linda McMahon, they don't believe in mental health support and services being addressed in schools.

Right.

And there's also this issue around 988's LGBTQI plus youth service.

So when you call the 988 suicide hotline and you press 3, traditionally that would have brought you to the support services specifically for LGBTQ youth.

But that shut down back in July of 2025, and we talked a bit about this back in Episode 4 of this season.

Congress had directed $33.1 million to restore it in their 2026 appropriations bill, but as of today, it still isn't operational.

SAMHSA says that it's working with Vibrant, which apparently is another, I guess, support group that I'm not familiar with, frankly.

But anyway, they are working with them to try to reactivate this Press 3 by year's end, but saying that they also have to comply with Executive Order 14168.

Yeah, we have not touched on that executive order, but to remind everyone, it was one of the first executive orders of the second Trump administration.

This executive order was called Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government, signed on January 20th, 2025.

And yes, I do have to say it in that.

Exactly.

I know.

Yes.

Well, thank God for this government to come in and, you know, defend us women from under extremism.

Yes.

Exactly.

And, you know, the ever important biological.