Maternal health advocates say passing mandatory one-year Medicaid postpartum coverage is now a matter of life-and-death for women of child-bearing age since the Supreme Court removed national abortion protections last week when it overturned Roe v. Wade, and Rep. Robin Kelly (D-IL) is pushing to get such coverage included in Democrats’ emerging skinny reconciliation legislation.

The National Kidney Foundation is deeply concerned that the Supreme Court’s ruling on dialysis coverage will severely impact patients’ access to care for end stage renal disease as private plans are given the opportunity to reduce their reimbursement rates, and the group is now doubling down on its push for Medigap expansion legislation and other policies that protect affordable dialysis care.

The Supreme Court’s just-issued decision restricting the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean Air Act authority to regulate power-sector greenhouse gases is elevating the importance of the judicial “major questions” doctrine, which imposes strict scrutiny on agency rulemaking.