171 - The Supreme Court Vacancy and What's at Stake for the Affordable Care Act, Access to Firearms, and Reproductive Rights and Health
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 2 October 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Justice Ginsburg could have an unprecedented impact on critical public health issues. In a special Friday episode, Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with three experts in public health law—Lainie Rutkow, Jon Vernick, and Joanne Rosen—about the ACA, the Second Amendment, and Roe v. Wade. They discuss the Court's precedents around these issues, how nominee Amy Coney Barrett's originalist and textualist philosophies might be used to interpret them, whether one judge can make a significant difference in overall decisions, and the potential impacts reversals and changes to existing laws could make on the public's health.
KEYWORDS: policy; firearms; abortion
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 2 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins |
| 0:11.6 | Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.6 | I'm Joshua Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, |
| 0:18.8 | and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:21.8 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence and experience to the public health news of the day |
| 0:27.3 | through informative interviews with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public |
| 0:32.5 | health officials, clinicians, and more. If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at |
| 0:39.8 | Public Health Question at jhh.edu. That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast |
| 0:47.8 | episodes. Today, I speak to three faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
| 0:54.0 | in Public Health in Public |
| 0:54.8 | Health Law, Lainey Rutko, Jan Bernick, and Joanne Rosen, about the vacancy on the Supreme |
| 1:01.5 | Court. |
| 1:02.6 | We discuss what is at stake for the Affordable Care Act, for access to firearms, and for |
| 1:08.2 | reproductive rights and health. |
| 1:13.9 | Let's listen. I'm pleased to be joined by three terrific professors of public health law, Laini Rutko. Hi there. Pleasure to be with you today, Josh. |
| 1:19.9 | Jan Bernic. Hi, Josh. Great to be here. Thank you for hosting us. And Joanne Rosen. |
| 1:25.9 | Hi, Josh. Lovely to be here. So we've talked a little bit, and we're going to |
| 1:31.4 | jump right into three critical issues for public health and the Supreme Court, given the news of the |
| 1:37.8 | day. First, we're going to talk about the Affordable Care Act, then we're going to talk about |
| 1:42.2 | firearms, and we're going to conclude about firearms and we're going to conclude with reproductive |
| 1:46.0 | rights. So let's start with the Affordable Care Act. Dr. Rutko, why is there so much discussion |
| 1:52.0 | of the Affordable Care Act with a Supreme Court vacancy? Even before the Supreme Court vacancy arose, |
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