Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to have the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule mirror Denmark’s are also getting pushback from critics who argue that the U.S. doesn’t have European levels of health care access and has different levels of disease, Politico reports.

“Medicaid programs made more than $200 million in improper payments to health care providers between 2021 and 2022 for people who had already died,” the AP reports.

“The Trump administration plans to shift the federal government away from directly recommending most vaccines for children and suggest they receive fewer shots to more closely align with Denmark’s immunization model,” the Washington Post reports.

“Four House Republicans snubbed Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and teamed up with Democrats to force a House vote on a three-year extension of expiring Obamacare funds,” NBC News reports.

“All of them have one thing in common: They face re-election in swing districts in next year’s midterm elections.”

“And since the GOP hasn’t come up with a replacement plan, voters will have little doubt about whom to blame when those premium hikes hit.”

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) spoke to Kaitlin Collins on CNN:

COLLINS: What do you say to people who say Republicans have had 15 years to change the ACA and they haven’t done it?

SCOTT: Well, I mean, Democrats they’re the ones who created these subsidies… Why didn’t Democrats fix it?

“Harvey Risch, a Yale epidemiologist long respected for his work in cancer research but who has faced controversy for promoting an unproven covid-19 treatment, has been selected by President Donald Trump to lead the nation’s cancer initiative,” the Washington Post reports.

CBS News: “Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine.”

“It’s official: House Speaker Mike Johnson says he won’t call a vote to extend enhanced subsidies under the Affordable Care Act, effectively guaranteeing they will expire at the end of this month,” NBC News reports.

“That means higher insurance premiums will go into effect for millions of Americans who get coverage through Obamacare next year.”

Punchbowl News: “This week — the last of the legislative year — was designed to give House Republicans a way to push back on Democratic attacks that they’re indifferent to skyrocketing health care costs hitting millions of Americans.”

“Instead, the House GOP leadership has facilitated an untimely — and particularly nasty — intraparty brawl, pitting moderates against Republican Party leaders and further strengthening Democrats’ political hand as the Obamacare cliff looms.”

Meanwhile, Politico reports the White House is “contending with differing opinions over the political ramifications of the subsidies expiring, the question of whether President Donald Trump’s engagement might be unproductive on the Hill and the reality that Trump, behind the scenes, likely knows something must be done to prevent the premium spike some Americans would see.”

“Florida will be hit harder than any other state if ObamaCare subsidies expire at the end of the year, which is looking increasingly likely as Republicans in Congress struggle to unite behind a plan to extend the tax credits,” NewsNation reports.

“More than 1.5 million Floridians could lose healthcare as monthly payments skyrocket. Average premium costs could shoot up by 132 percent, or by $521 a month, for Floridians who currently receive enhanced ObamaCare subsidies.”

“With key Obamacare tax credits set to expire within weeks, Democrats have unified behind a simple message: extend the subsidies and keep health insurance premiums from spiking for more than 20 million Americans,” Politico reports.

“Republicans, meanwhile, have engaged in a wide-ranging blame game while scrambling to coalesce behind an easily digestible plan to lower health care costs. That struggle comes to a head this week as House leaders move to put what they hope will be a consensus GOP plan up for a vote.”

Punchbowl News: “With just 17 days until the Obamacare tax credits expire, we can say definitively that Congress — and the country — is going over the Obamacare cliff. Even if the House passes something, the Senate isn’t going to move anything by the deadline.”

“Both GOP and Democratic leaders have decided, for their own internal reasons, that doing nothing is better than having a bipartisan deal.”

“This may be one of the biggest moments of the 2026 election cycle. Millions of Americans could lose health insurance or face dramatically higher premiums. With the U.S. economy in a fragile state, the stakes — both personal and political — couldn’t be higher.”

CNN: Congress races against the clock to avert skyrocketing health care costs for millions.

Measles outbreaks are growing along the Utah-Arizona border and in South Carolina, where hundreds are in quarantine, the AP reports.