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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 creator of the critically praised reference ebook “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.
The Arizona Supreme Courtroom shook up the nationwide abortion debate this week, ruling {that a} ban initially handed in 1864 — earlier than the top of the Civil Warfare and a long time earlier than Arizona grew to become a state — may very well be enforced. As in another states, together with Florida, voters will possible have the possibility to resolve whether or not to enshrine abortion rights within the state structure in November.
The Arizona ruling got here simply sooner or later 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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Alice Miranda Ollstein
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Rachel Roubein
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Rachel Cohrs Zhang
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Among the many takeaways from this week’s episode:
- Former President Donald Trump’s remarks this week replicate solely the newest 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 Courtroom justices more likely 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 Courtroom ruling this week permitting the enforcement of a near-total abortion ban courting to the Civil Warfare. But any ban — even one which doesn’t final lengthy — can have lasting results. Abortion clinics could not survive such restrictions, and docs and residents could issue them into their selections about the place to observe drugs.
- Additionally in abortion information, an appeals court docket panel in Indiana unanimously dominated that the state can’t implement its abortion ban in opposition to a bunch of non-Christians who sued, siding with principally Jewish plaintiffs who charged that the ban violates their non secular freedom rights.
- A discouraging new examine 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 Citadel Work, who reported and wrote the newest 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 vital. You probably have an outrageous or baffling medical invoice you’d prefer 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 assume you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: Stat’s “Your Canine Is Most likely on Prozac. Specialists Say That Says Extra In regards to 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 Machine 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 Beginning Management With out Parental Consent,” by Eleanor Klibanoff.
Rachel Roubein: The Washington Submit’s “As Weight problems Rises, Huge Meals and Dietitians Push ‘Anti-Eating regimen’ Recommendation,” by Sasha Chavkin, Caitlin Gilbert, Anjali Tsui, and Anahad O’Connor.
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