{"podcast":{"title":"What the Health? From KFF Health News","slug":"what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413","podcast_index_feed_id":628413,"rss_url":"https://whatthehealth.feeds.wamu.org","website_url":"https://kffhealthnews.org/what-the-health/","image_url":"https://f.prxu.org/14448/images/22fc5dba-0795-4053-9bbc-8fb9eb6623c5/WTH-3000sq_2025.jpg","author":"KFF Health News (News-Web@kff.org)","episode_count":460,"summary":"Join Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, along with top health policy reporters from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico and other media outlets to discuss the latest news and explain what the health is going on here in Washington, D.C.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T06:17:05.825639+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413"},"episode":{"title":"40 Years of Health Policy","slug":"40-years-of-health-policy","published_at":"2026-03-05T18:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413/40-years-of-health-policy","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413","url":"https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_14448_9ddf2582-0f57-411d-9da3-dbc492ea56aa&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fwhatthehealth.feeds.wamu.org","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/14448/9ddf2582-0f57-411d-9da3-dbc492ea56aa/WTH_Ep_436__01.mp3","summary":"This month is 40 years since host Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, began reporting on health policy in Washington. To mark the anniversary, Rovner is joined by two longtime sources to discuss what has — and has not — changed since 1986. This week’s special guests are Chip Kahn, a former GOP House and Senate staffer and former head of the Federation of American Hospitals and the Health Insurance Association of America, and Chris Jennings, a former Democratic Senate staffer and a health policy adviser to Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. Visit our website to read a transcript of this episode.","meta_description":"This month is 40 years since host Julie Rovner, chief Washington correspondent for KFF Health News, began reporting on health policy in Washington. To mar…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2785,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413/episodes/40-years-of-health-policy/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-the-health-from-kff-health-news-628413/40-years-of-health-policy.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}