Julie Rovner

NPR's Juana Summer's speaks with Julie Rovner of KFF Health News about what it means to run the Department of Health and Human Services and what Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., could bring to the job.

The extremely strict abortion bans in Texas won again in the federal courts on Tuesday. The federal appeals court in New Orleans sided with Texas in a case about abortions in emergencies.

Democrats secured the compromise by making relatively modest concessions, including ordering the return of unspent COVID funds and limiting other health spending.

The arguments before the justices did not deal directly with the state’s ban on abortions after six weeks. Instead, they centered on the unique mechanism in the law that gives state officials no role in enforcement.

With control of Congress, Democrats could quickly overturn some Trump administration health regulations by using the Congressional Review Act. So why aren't they moving to do so?

As the votes continue to be counted in the tight battle between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the federal role in health care is at stake.