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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 knowledgeable on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference e book “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
In what will definitely be remembered as a landmark determination, the Supreme Court docket’s conservative majority this week overruled a 40-year-old authorized precedent that required judges generally to yield to the experience of federal companies. It’s unclear how the elimination of what’s generally known as the “Chevron deference” will have an effect on the day-to-day enterprise of the federal authorities, however the determination is already sending shockwaves by means of the policymaking group. Administrative consultants say it’ll dramatically change the best way key well being companies, such because the FDA and the Facilities for Medicare & Medicaid Providers, do enterprise.
The Supreme Court docket additionally this week determined to not resolve a case out of Idaho that centered on whether or not a federal well being legislation that requires hospitals to offer emergency care overrides the state’s near-total ban on abortion.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins colleges of public well being and nursing and Politico Journal, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.
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Joanne Kenen
Johns Hopkins College and Politico
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Victoria Knight
Axios
@victoriaregisk
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Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
@AliceOllstein
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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
In 1984, the Supreme Court docket dominated broadly that courts ought to defer to the decision-making of federal companies when an ambiguous legislation is challenged. On Friday, the Supreme Court docket dominated that the courts, not federal companies, ought to have the ultimate say. The ruling will make it tougher to implement federal legal guidelines — and attracts consideration to the truth that Congress, continuously and pointedly, leaves federal companies a lot of the job of turning written legal guidelines into actuality.
That was hardly the one Supreme Court docket determination with main well being implications this week: On Thursday, the courtroom briefly restored entry to emergency abortions in Idaho. However as with its abortion-pill determination, it dominated on a technicality, with different, related circumstances within the wings — like one difficult Texas’ abortion ban.
In separate rulings, the courtroom struck down a serious opioid settlement settlement, and it successfully allowed the federal authorities to petition social media corporations to take away falsehoods. Plus, the courtroom agreed to listen to a case subsequent time period on transgender well being look after minors.
The primary general-election debate of the 2024 presidential cycle left abortion activists annoyed with their standard-bearers — on each side of the aisle. Opponents didn’t like that former President Donald Trump doubled down on his stance that abortion needs to be left to the states. And abortion rights supporters felt President Joe Biden did not forcefully rebut Trump’s outlandish falsehoods about abortion — and likewise did not take a robust sufficient place on abortion rights himself.
Plus, for “additional credit score,” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they suppose you need to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The Washington Publish’s “Masks Are Going From Mandated to Criminalized in Some States,” by Fenit Nirappil.
Victoria Knight: The New York Occasions’ “The Opaque Trade Secretly Inflating Costs for Prescription Medicine,” by Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson.
Joanne Kenen: The Washington Publish’s “Social Safety To Drop Out of date Jobs Used To Deny Incapacity Advantages,” by Lisa Rein.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Politico’s “Opioid Deaths Rose 50 % In the course of the Pandemic. in These Locations, They Fell,” by Ruth Reader.
Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:
Politico’s “Contained in the $100 Million Plan To Restore Abortion Rights in America,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
JAMA Community Open’s “Use of Oral and Emergency Contraceptives After the US Supreme Court docket’s Dobbs Determination,” by Dima M. Qato, Rebecca Myerson, Andrew Shooshtari, et al.
JAMA Well being Discussion board’s “Modifications in Everlasting Contraception Procedures Amongst Younger Adults Following the Dobbs Determination,” by Jacqueline E. Ellison, Brittany L. Brown-Podgorski, and Jake R. Morgan.
JAMA Pediatrics’ “Toddler Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Being pregnant,” by Alison Gemmill, Claire E. Margerison, Elizabeth A. Stuart, et al.
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