KFF Health News’ ‘What the Health?’
Episode Title: Alabama’s IVF Ruling Still Making Waves
Episode Number: 336
Released: Feb. 29, 2024
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Julie Rovner: Hello, and invite back to “What the Health?” I’m Julie Rovner, chief Washington reporter for KFF Health News, and I’m signed up with by a few of the very best and most intelligent health press reporters in Washington. We’re taping today on Thursday, Feb. 29, at 10 a.m. Happy leap day, everybody. As constantly, news occurs quickly and things may’ve altered by the time you hear this, so here we go.
We are signed up with today by means of video conference by Rachel Cohrs of Stat News.
Rachel Cohrs: Hi, everyone.
Rovner: Riley Ray Griffin of Bloomberg News.
Riley Griffin: Hello, hi.
Rovner: And Joanne Kenen of the Johns Hopkins University schools of nursing and public health and Politico Magazine.
Joanne Kenen: Hi, everyone.
Rovner: Later in this episode we’ll have my interview with University of Pittsburgh law teacher Greer Donley about that 150-year-old Comstock Act we’ve spoken about a lot recently. Initially, this week’s news.
As we tape this early morning, the most current in a series of short-term costs expenses for the financial year that started nearly 5 months earlier, is a day and a half away from ending, and the short-term costs for the rest of the federal government is 15 days from ending. And obviously your house and Senate remain in the procedure of preparing yet another set of short-term costs to keep the federal government open for another week each, making the brand-new due dates March 8 and March 22. I must mention that the Food and Drug Administration is consisted of in the very first set of costs that would end, and the rest of HHS [Department of Health and Human Services] remains in the 2nd batch.
What are the opportunities that this time Congress can complete up the costs for financial 2024? Rachel, I call this Groundhog Day, other than February’s about to be over.
Cohrs: Yeah, it’s certainly looking much better. I believe this is the CR [continuing resolution] where, as I’m considering it, the grownups remain in the space and the settlements are really taking place. Since we had a number of fake-outs there, where no one was truly taking it seriously, however I believe we are lastly at a location where they do have some arrangement on some costs costs. Your home ideally will be passing a few of them, and I’m positive that they’ll get it a minimum of close within that March 8-March 22 amount of time to extend us out a couple of more months up until we get to do this all over once again in September.
A minimum of today, which it might alter,
