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Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly well being coverage information podcast, “What the Health?” A famous knowledgeable on well being coverage points, Julie is the writer of the critically praised reference ebook “Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z,” now in its third version.
In what will definitely be remembered as a landmark choice, the Supreme Court’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 is unclear how the elimination of what’s often known as the “Chevron deference” will have an effect on the day-to-day enterprise of the federal authorities, however the choice is already sending shockwaves via the policymaking neighborhood. Administrative specialists say it would dramatically change the way in which key well being companies, such because the FDA and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, do enterprise.
The Supreme Court additionally this week determined to not determine a case out of Idaho that centered on whether or not a federal well being regulation that requires hospitals to supply emergency care overrides the state’s near-total ban on abortion.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins colleges of public well being and nursing and Politico Magazine, Victoria Knight of Axios, and Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico.
Panelists
Joanne Kenen
Johns Hopkins University and Politico
Victoria Knight
Axios
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
In 1984, the Supreme Court dominated broadly that courts ought to defer to the decision-making of federal companies when an ambiguous regulation is challenged. On Friday, the Supreme Court dominated that the courts, not federal companies, ought to have the ultimate say. The ruling will make it harder to implement federal legal guidelines — and attracts consideration to the truth that Congress, incessantly and pointedly, leaves federal companies a lot of the job of turning written legal guidelines into actuality.
That was hardly the one Supreme Court choice with main well being implications this week: On Thursday, the courtroom briefly restored entry to emergency abortions in Idaho. But as with its abortion-pill choice, it dominated on a technicality, with different, related instances 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 firms to take away falsehoods. Plus, the courtroom agreed to listen to a case subsequent time period on transgender well being take care of minors.
The first general-election debate of the 2024 presidential cycle left abortion activists annoyed with their standard-bearers — on either 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 powerful sufficient place on abortion rights himself.
Plus, for “extra credit,” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they suppose you must learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The Washington Post’s “Masks Are Going From Mandated to Criminalized in Some States,” by Fenit Nirappil.
Victoria Knight: The New York Times’ “The Opaque Industry Secretly Inflating Prices for Prescription Drugs,” by Rebecca Robbins and Reed Abelson.
Joanne Kenen: The Washington Post’s “Social Security To Drop Obsolete Jobs Used To Deny Disability Benefits,” by Lisa Rein.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: Politico’s “Opioid Deaths Rose 50 Percent During the Pandemic. in These Places, They Fell,” by Ruth Reader.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
Politico’s “Inside the $100 Million Plan To Restore Abortion Rights in America,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
JAMA Network Open’s “Use of Oral and Emergency Contraceptives After the US Supreme Court’s Dobbs Decision,” by Dima M. Qato, Rebecca Myerson, Andrew Shooshtari, et al.
JAMA Health Forum’s “Changes in Permanent Contraception Procedures Among Young Adults Following the Dobbs Decision,” by Jacqueline E. Ellison, Brittany L. Brown-Podgorski, and Jake R. Morgan.
JAMA Pediatrics’ “Infant Deaths After Texas’ 2021 Ban on Abortion in Early Pregnancy,” by Alison Gemmill, Claire E. Margerison, Elizabeth A. Stuart, et al.
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