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Julie Rovner
KFF Health News
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.
The change on the prime of the possible Democratic presidential ticket is prompting each abortion rights and anti-abortion organizations to recalibrate their campaigns, whilst they battle over finalizing fall poll proposals in lots of states.
Meanwhile, former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign is attempting to distance itself from “Project 2025,” the controversial plan reportedly designed for the subsequent GOP administration and put collectively by the conservative Heritage Foundation and former Trump administration officers. Although the pinnacle of the venture’s coverage arm was pushed out this week, the a part of the venture making a database of Trump loyalists to employees a possible new administration stays up and working.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Health News, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Lauren Weber of The Washington Post, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet.
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Sarah Karlin-Smith
Pink Sheet
Alice Miranda Ollstein
Politico
Lauren Weber
The Washington Post
Among the takeaways from this week’s episode:
Vice President Kamala Harris is promising to “restore reproductive freedom” if elected president; her marketing campaign says which means restoring the constitutional proper to an abortion beneath Roe v. Wade. Despite that objective having slim prospects in Congress, some abortion rights supporters are hoping the federal authorities would develop abortion entry even past Roe beneath her presidency.
President Joe Biden this week really useful a sweeping overhaul of the Supreme Court, together with time period limits for justices. Famously an institutionalist, Biden stopped in need of embracing the progressive name so as to add extra justices to the excessive courtroom. Nonetheless, his proposal has been thought-about politically harmful, even because the conservative-tilted courtroom has overturned its personal precedents and shrugged at its ethics insurance policies — and shifts within the nationwide dialog concerning the courtroom may have a long-term impact.
The Trump marketing campaign’s makes an attempt to distance itself from the controversial concepts of Heritage’s Project 2025 are extra savvy advertising than something: Even with out adopting the doc, the conservative coverage personnel behind it may properly turn into the conservative coverage personnel of a second Trump administration.
GOP state officers and anti-abortion teams are launching their subsequent makes an attempt to dam potential abortion rights victories on the poll field. The subsequent few weeks will reveal whether or not voters in sure influential states — like Arizona and Florida — weigh in on abortion this fall.
Also this week, Rovner interviews KFF Health News’ Elisabeth Rosenthal, who reported and wrote the newest KFF Health News-NPR “Bill of the Month” installment a couple of preauthorized surgical procedure that generated a six-figure invoice.
Plus, for “extra credit” the panelists counsel well being coverage tales they learn this week that they assume you need to learn, too:
Julie Rovner: The Washington Post’s “Online Portals Deliver Scary Health News Before Doctors Can Weigh In,” by Fenit Nirappil.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: ProPublica’s “A Lab Test That Experts Liken to a Witch Trial Is Helping Send Women to Prison for Murder,” by Duaa Eldeib.
Lauren Weber: The Tributary’s “Testimony: Florida Wrongly Cut People From Medicaid Due to ‘Computer Error,’ Bad Data,” by Charlie McGee.
Sarah Karlin-Smith: KFF Health News’ “Why Many Nonprofit (Wink, Wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Money,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal; and The Hollywood Reporter’s “New York’s Largest Hospital System Is Setting Its Sights on the Entertainment Business,” by Alex Weprin.
Also talked about on this week’s podcast:
Politico’s “States Break Out New Tactics To Thwart Abortion Ballot Measures,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
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