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Julie Rovner KFF Well being Information @jrovner
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.
The change on the high of the seemingly Democratic presidential ticket is prompting each abortion rights and anti-abortion organizations to recalibrate their campaigns, at the same time as they combat over finalizing fall poll proposals in lots of states.
In the meantime, former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign is attempting to distance itself from “Undertaking 2025,” the controversial plan reportedly designed for the subsequent GOP administration and put collectively by the conservative Heritage Basis and former Trump administration officers. Though 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 workers a possible new administration stays up and working.
This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Alice Miranda Ollstein of Politico, Lauren Weber of The Washington Submit, and Sarah Karlin-Smith of the Pink Sheet.
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Among the many 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 underneath Roe v. Wade. Regardless of that purpose having slim prospects in Congress, some abortion rights supporters are hoping the federal authorities would develop abortion entry even past Roe underneath her presidency.
- President Joe Biden this week really useful a sweeping overhaul of the Supreme Courtroom, together with time period limits for justices. Famously an institutionalist, Biden stopped wanting embracing the progressive name so as to add extra justices to the excessive court docket. Nonetheless, his proposal has been thought of politically harmful, even because the conservative-tilted court docket has overturned its personal precedents and shrugged at its ethics insurance policies — and shifts within the nationwide dialog in regards to the court docket may have a long-term impact.
- The Trump marketing campaign’s makes an attempt to distance itself from the controversial concepts of Heritage’s Undertaking 2025 are extra savvy advertising and marketing than something: Even with out adopting the doc, the conservative coverage personnel behind it may nicely turn out to be 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.
Additionally this week, Rovner interviews KFF Well being Information’ Elisabeth Rosenthal, who reported and wrote the newest KFF Well being Information-NPR “Invoice of the Month” installment a few preauthorized surgical procedure that generated a six-figure invoice.
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: The Washington Submit’s “On-line Portals Ship Scary Well being Information Earlier than Docs Can Weigh In,” by Fenit Nirappil.
Alice Miranda Ollstein: ProPublica’s “A Lab Check That Specialists Liken to a Witch Trial Is Serving to Ship Girls to Jail for Homicide,” by Duaa Eldeib.
Lauren Weber: The Tributary’s “Testimony: Florida Wrongly Minimize Folks From Medicaid On account of ‘Laptop Error,’ Unhealthy Information,” by Charlie McGee.
Sarah Karlin-Smith: KFF Well being Information’ “Why Many Nonprofit (Wink, Wink) Hospitals Are Rolling in Cash,” by Elisabeth Rosenthal; and The Hollywood Reporter’s “New York’s Largest Hospital System Is Setting Its Sights on the Leisure Enterprise,” by Alex Weprin.
Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:
Politico’s “States Break Out New Techniques To Thwart Abortion Poll Measures,” by Alice Miranda Ollstein.
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- Francis Ying Audio producer
- Emmarie Huetteman Editor
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