The Arizona Supreme Court shook up the national abortion debate this week, ruling that a ban originally passed in 1864 could be enforced. Host julie rovner and panelists Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, & Rachel Roubein discuss the ruling and more on #WTHealth : kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast/w…

On this week's #WTHealth , the latest on the abortion front with Alice Miranda Ollstein, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, and Rachel Roubein. Plus more on why health care costs to much.
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A year into the unwinding of pandemic protections in Medicaid, KFF tracking shows we have reached a milestone: Over 20 million people have now been dropped, most for procedural reasons.

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i wonder if that's the strategy...

I learned this a couple of weeks ago. But yeah.

Nationwide injunctions, man. They're bad!

if you ask me what I think of the NPR kerfuffle going on, i'll just point you to this thread. (I was hired in 1998 and left in 2014 but still contribute). Thanks, Brian Mann

To CDC

Id love to read this article by Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH in NEJM but alas it is out of reach to all but the wealthiest institutions

When the CDC Director writes an important article, I would hope it would be in a format that is made available to all tax payers.…

that's nice...

just gonna leave this here, for those who don't watch Fox Business...

I miss school figures...

RIP Regular Order...

Would LOVE to see him here in DC...2nd pick maybe???

Saying 'assuming full attendance' is always part of vote math, but if you are a whip counting votes you never assume because it almost never happens. Of 830 House votes in the 118th Congress, 12 saw full attendance; if you exclude votes to elect a speaker the figure falls to 0.

I.e., even if the 1864 law banned 'procuring a miscarriage,' in practice, women could not end a pregnancy until they knew it existed. People regularly bought herbs to induce a late period, and no one cared. Read more in Jill Wieber Lens & Evan's paper here. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Trump as per usual being wildly vague in his talk about abortion ——>

During the entirety of my PhD, I said, 'These chemicals are not regulated in US drinking water' in pretty much every presentation I gave.

But that changes today: The EPA finalized standards for #PFAS in drinking water 🥹

Now we wait for the lawsuits.

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Re-upping this because I think there’s a lot of confusion. The AZ Supreme Court did not decide on the merits of this law—in fact they bumped the question of its constitutionality back down to the trial court. They only said it is presently enforceable. The legal battle
continues

Living your life to the fullest does not have to involve selfies with bison.