Supreme Court docket rejects lawsuit towards abortion capsule – for now

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Julie Rovner KFF Well being Information @jrovner

Julie Rovner is KFF Well being Information’ chief Washington correspondent and host of the weekly well being coverage podcast “What the Well being?” She is a acknowledged well being coverage skilled and creator of the critically acclaimed reference work “Well being Care Politics and Coverage A to Z,” now in its third version.

A Supreme Court docket unanimously rejected a problem to the FDA’s approval and guidelines for the abortion capsule mifepristone, discovering that the plaintiff’s anti-abortion docs’ group lacked standing. However anti-abortion activists acquire different choices to restrict the supply of the capsule, which is often utilized in treatment abortions, which now account for almost two-thirds of all abortions in the USA.

In the meantime, the Biden administration is proposing rules that might prohibit credit score bureaus from together with medical debt on particular person credit score studies. And former President Donald Trump, signaling that drug costs will stay a key marketing campaign concern, is making an attempt to recall credit score for the $35-a-month cap on insulin for Medicare recipients – which Biden supported and signed into regulation.

This week’s panelists are Julie Rovner of KFF Well being Information, Anna Edney of Bloomberg Information, Rachana Pradhan of KFF Well being Information, and Emmarie Huetteman of KFF Well being Information.

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Takeaways from this week’s episode embrace:

• All 9 Supreme Court docket justices on June 13 rejected a lawsuit difficult the abortion capsule mifepristone, ruling that the plaintiffs lacked standing. However that might not be the ultimate phrase: The choice leaves open the likelihood that different plaintiffs – together with three states already concerned within the case – might file an analogous lawsuit in the longer term, and the court docket might then vote to dam entry to the capsule.
• Because the presidential marketing campaign heats up, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are courting well being care employees. The Biden administration this week proposed wiping all medical debt from People’ credit score studies, an extension of the key credit score businesses’ earlier voluntary swagger to wipe medical payments underneath $500 from credit score studies. In the meantime, Trump continues to court docket vaccine skeptics and has wrongly taken credit score for Medicare’s $35-a-month insulin cap – which is primarily based on a regulation Biden supported and signed.
• On the pharmacy counter, issues are worsening. Pharmacists and drug producers are reporting the very best variety of drug shortages in greater than 20 years. And impartial pharmacists specifically mutter they’re struggling to maintain medication on the cabinets, citing a latest coverage change by the Biden administration that lowers prices for seniors – but additionally pharmacies’ money circulate.
• And the Southern Baptist Conference, the nation’s largest Protestant department, voted this week to prohibit the expend of in vitro fertilization. As latest swings in attitudes towards abortion demonstrate, Republican candidates are underneath stress to accommodate a wide selection of views even inside their very own occasion.

Additionally this week, Rovner interviews KFF President and CEO Drew Altman about KFF’s current information, Well being Coverage 101. You possibly can be taught extra right here.

And as a “bonus level,” panelists recommend articles on well being coverage that they learn this week and that they contemplate you must learn, too:

Julie Rovner: HuffPosts “How America’s psychological well being disaster turned this household’s worst nightmare,” by Jonathan Cohn.

Anna Edney: Stat Information’ “Four Tops singer’s lawsuit says he went to the emergency room for chest pains and ended up in a straitjacket,” by Tara Bannow.

Rachana Pradhan: The Fresh York Occasions’ “Abortion teams mutter tech corporations suppress posts and accounts,” by Emily Schmall and Sapna Maheshwari.

Emmarie Huetteman: CBS Information’ “As FDA pushes for robust motion towards hen flu in uncooked milk, some states mutter their fingers are tied,” by Alexander Tin.

Additionally talked about on this week’s podcast:

Credit

• Francis Ying – Audio Producer
• Emmarie Huetteman Editor

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