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Julie Rovner: Hello and invite back to “What the Health?” I'm Julie Rovner, chief Washington reporter for KFF Health News, and I'm signed up with by a few of the very best and most intelligent health press reporters in Washington. We're taping today on Friday, October 4th, at 10 a.m. As constantly, news occurs quick and things may have altered by the time you hear this. Here we go.
Rovner: Today we are signed up with through teleconference by Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Hello.
Rovner: Sandhya Raman of CQ Roll Call.
Raman: Hello, everybody.
Rovner: And Anna Edney of Bloomberg News.
Anna Edney: Hi there.
Rovner: Later in this episode, we'll have my “Bill of the Month” interview with my KFF Health News coworker Lauren Sausser. This month's client is a high school professional athlete whose issue got repaired, however his expense did not. Initially, the news.
We're going to begin today with the project. It is October. I do not understand how that occurred. On Tuesday, vice-presidential prospects Senator JD Vance of Ohio and Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota held their very first and only argument. It felt extremely Midwestern great, with Walz playing his normal Aw shucks self and Vance attempting extremely difficult to appear, for desire of a much better word, pleasant. Did we discover anything brand-new from either prospect?
Edney: I do not believe I heard anything brand-new, no– not that I can keep in mind.
Rovner: I understand, clearly, they exchanged some views on abortion. Vance attempted really tough to distance himself from his own hard-line views on the topic, consisting of rejecting that he ‘d ever supported a nationwide abortion restriction, which he did, by the method. Throughout the argument, previous President [Donald] Trump revealed on social networks that he would ban a nationwide abortion restriction, something he ‘d not stated in those precise words before. Alice, you've got a quite intriguing story out today recommending that this all may in fact be dealing with a doubtful public. Is it?
Ollstein: Yes. This has actually been a style I've been tracking for a bit. It became part of the reporting I was performing in Michigan a couple weeks earlier. One, what I believed was fascinating about that night was Trump and Vance have actually been talking past each other on abortion and opposing each other, and now …
Rovner: Oh, yeah.
Ollstein: … it lastly appears that they are on the exact same page, in regards to attempting to persuade the general public: Absolutely nothing to see here. We will not do a nationwide restriction. Do not stress over it. Democrats and abortion rights groups are running around yelling: They're lying. Take a look at their record. Take a look at what their allies have actually proposed crazes like Project 2025.
