Morning Briefing
Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations
Viewpoints: Abortion Not Settled Yet In US; Here's Why The ACA Is A Success.
In his majority opinion in the case overturning Roe v. Wade, Justice Samuel Alito insisted that the high court was finally settling the vexed abortion debate by returning the 鈥渁uthority to regulate abortion鈥 to the 鈥減eople and their elected representatives.鈥 (Melissa Murray and Kate Shaw, 3/26)
Abortion is back at the Supreme Court. The case contests decisions by the Food and Drug Administration to make the drug mifepristone available by mail and via telemedicine. But at oral argument on Monday, the court that overturned Roe v. Wade seemed poised to reject the arguments of the pro-life Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. (Noah Feldman, 3/27)
It always seemed farfetched that anti-abortion doctors could argue that they have the right to ask a court to severely restrict a drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration simply because they don鈥檛 want to treat women who might experience complications. (3/27)
We鈥檝e just passed the 14th anniversary of the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare 鈥 although many of the law鈥檚 provisions didn鈥檛 take effect until 2014. (Paul Krugman, 3/26)
When the results of President Biden鈥檚 annual physical were released last month, many wondered why his primary care physician hadn鈥檛 conducted a cognitive assessment. While this speculation is fueled by an ongoing, politicized debate about the mental fitness of both President Biden and former President Trump, it touches on an important issue that has largely gone overlooked: In navigating an Alzheimer鈥檚 disease crisis, what role should primary care providers play in cognitive testing? (Katherine O'Malley, 3/27)