Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News' weekly health policy news podcast, "What the Health?" A noted expert on health policy issues, Julie is the author of the critically praised reference book "Health Care Politics and Policy A to Z," now in its third edition. It was a busy year for health-related cases at the Supreme Court. Among other issues, the justices grappled with two abortion cases, a separate case touching on the opioid epidemic, and a case challenging whether localities can bar homeless people from sleeping in public spaces.
Also, the court struck down a decades-old precedent that could dramatically change how the federal government oversees health care and other types of policy. In this special episode of "What the Health?", Sarah Somers, legal director of the National Health Law Program, joins KFF Health News' chief Washington correspondent, Julie Rovner, to discuss how the justices disposed of the term's health-related cases and what those decisions could mean going forward. On the functioning of government: Loper Bright Enterprises v.
Raimondo , challenging the "Chevron doctrine" that required courts to defer in most cases to the expertise of federal agencies in interpreting laws passed by Congress. Corner Post Inc. v.
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System , challenging the statute of limitations for bringing a case against a federal agency's actions. On abortion: Food and Dru.