Kelly Hooper
@kelhoops
health care reporter @politico • @smpagwu alum • jersey girl • @bravotv fanatic • swiftie
Some news: I’m taking on a new role on the @politico health care team as a co-author of morning Pulse! Excited to helm this newsletter with @ChelseaCirruzzo and to continue reporting on the health insurance beat. 📫 Send tips and gossip to [email protected]!
A little news: I’ve officially joined @politico as a health care reporter, covering the surgeon general and writing the Pro Health Care PM newsletter. Excited to dig in — send tips, add me to your press lists, and reach out at [email protected] or afriedman.30 on Signal.
New from me and @RuthReader in @POLITICOPulse today: CMMI is on a hiring spree looking for about 100 people to help with an aggressive rollout of new payment models. politico.com/newsletters/po…
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has said he wants to drastically improve the way the federal government provides health care to tribes. Some leaders in tribal health are wondering when that will start. Story here: politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
🚨Huge news: Funds for @PEPFAR won’t be cut anymore as part of the rescissions package, @jordainc reports. politico.com/live-updates/2…
Hospitals lost bigly in the big beautiful bill. But the war may not be over. New from me @davidalim and @amandalanchu on how hospitals strike back. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…
This morning in CDC news: – This year, the U.S. officially has the most measles cases on record since 1992. politico.com/news/2025/07/0… – The HELP committee voted to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, Trump’s CDC director pick. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…
Doctors’ groups sue Kennedy over Covid shot changes for kids, pregnant people politi.co/45Xsbs1 via @politico
New from me and @kelhoops: Why republicans can't quit Medicaid cuts. politico.com/news/2025/07/0…
IT'S GO TIME! What will House Medicaid mods do?
It's decision time for these House Republicans who have set red lines on Medicaid cuts politico.com/news/2025/07/0… w/ @rking_19
It's decision time for these House Republicans who have set red lines on Medicaid cuts politico.com/news/2025/07/0… w/ @rking_19
I joined @politico today as a healthcare reporter, covering doctors, hospitals and their relationships in Washington! 🏨🏛 Please send tips and add me to your press lists via [email protected].
Kennedy’s vaccine panel votes to remove preservative long targeted by activists, w/@sophie_gardnerJ politi.co/3Tesibb via @politico
🚨 Senate GOP dealt major blow on megabill health care plans Parliamentarian ruled out key health care provisions GOP was counting on for $$ including PROVIDER TAX plans Rs will try to rewrite provider tax — but this is a major hit to July 4 hopes politico.com/live-updates/2…
Congress is trading millions in pharma stocks as the Trump admin vies to overhaul the country’s vaccine policy & the business of pharma Republicans outpaced Democrats in purchases, investing as much as $1.8mn in drug companies, a @politico analysis found politico.com/news/2025/06/2…
Sen. Bill Cassidy says this week's meeting of the CDC's vaccine advisers should not proceed because the new members appointed by Secretary Kennedy lack relevant experience and might have a "preconceived bias" politico.com/live-updates/2…
Cassidy calls for postponing the ACIP meeting, writing that some of RFK Jr’s new appoints to the vaccine panel “lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias against them”
Although the appointees to ACIP have scientific credentials, many do not have significant experience studying microbiology, epidemiology or immunology. In particular, some lack experience studying new technologies such as mRNA vaccines, and may even have a preconceived bias…
ICYMI in today's Pulse: RFK Jr.'s vaccine skakeup is injecting uncertainty into insurance coverage of vaccines: politico.com/newsletters/po…
I’m joining Morning Pulse! I will co-author it with @kelhoops. Sign up!! Here’s my first edition: politico.com/newsletters/po…