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Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Well being Information’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Well being?” A famous professional on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference ebook “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
The Arizona Supreme Court docket shook up the nationwide abortion debate this week, ruling {that a} ban initially handed in 1864 — earlier than the top of the Civil Battle and a long time earlier than Arizona turned a state — may very well be enforced. As in another states, together with Florida, voters will seemingly have the possibility to resolve whether or not to enshrine abortion rights within the state structure in November.
The Arizona ruling got here simply in the future after former President Donald Trump declared that abortion ought to stay a state concern, though he then criticized the ruling as having gone “too far.”
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Rachel Roubein of The Washington Submit, and Rachel Cohrs Zhang of Stat.
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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
Former President Donald Trump’s remarks this week mirror solely the most recent public shift in his views on abortion entry. Throughout an look on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in 1999, he described himself as “very pro-choice,” however by the 2016 presidential marketing campaign, he had dedicated to nominating conservative Supreme Court docket justices prone to overturn the constitutional proper to an abortion. Trump later blamed Republican losses within the 2022 elections on the overturning of that proper.
Arizona officers, in addition to docs and sufferers, are untangling the ramifications of a state Supreme Court docket ruling this week permitting the enforcement of a near-total abortion ban relationship to the Civil Battle. But any ban — even one which doesn’t final lengthy — can have lasting results. Abortion clinics might not survive such restrictions, and docs and residents might issue them into their selections about the place to apply medication.
Additionally in abortion information, an appeals courtroom panel in Indiana unanimously dominated that the state can not implement its abortion ban towards a bunch of non-Christians who sued, siding with largely Jewish plaintiffs who charged that the ban violates their spiritual freedom rights.
A discouraging new research finds that paying off a person’s medical debt as soon as it has reached collections doesn’t supply them a lot monetary — or psychological well being — profit. One issue may very well be that the failure to pay medical debt is simply a symptom of bigger monetary difficulties.
Additionally this week, Rovner interviews KFF Well being Information’ Molly Fort Work, who reported and wrote the most recent KFF Well being Information-NPR “Invoice of the Month” function about an air-ambulance trip for an toddler with RSV that his insurer deemed to not be medically crucial. If in case you have an outrageous or baffling medical invoice you’d wish to ship us, you are able to do that right here.
Plus, for “additional credit score,” the panelists recommend well being coverage tales they learn this week that they suppose you need to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: Stat’s “Your Canine Is Most likely on Prozac. Consultants Say That Says Extra Concerning the American Psychological Well being Disaster Than Pets,” by Sarah Owermohle.
Rachel Cohrs Zhang: KFF Well being Information’ “Ten Medical doctors on FDA Panel Reviewing Abbott Coronary heart Gadget Had Monetary Ties With Firm,” by David Hilzenrath and Holly Okay. Hacker.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: The Texas Tribune’s “How Texas Teenagers Misplaced the One Program That Allowed Start Management With out Parental Consent,” by Eleanor Klibanoff.
Rachel Roubein: The Washington Submit’s “As Weight problems Rises, Huge Meals and Dietitians Push ‘Anti-Weight-reduction plan’ Recommendation,” by Sasha Chavkin, Caitlin Gilbert, Anjali Tsui, and Anahad O’Connor.
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