Supreme Court to consider dispute involving ACA's preventive-care coverage

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : " With the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congress required health insurers and group health plans to cover certain preventive services that are recommended by the task force without imposing co-pays, deductibles or other cost-sharing charges on patients.
58% : The Biden and Trump administrations have both estimated that millions of Americans have received these services for free through their insurance plans.
51% : The Supreme Court on Monday will consider a case that could impact whether Americans have to pay out-of-pocket for preventive-care services such as diabetes screenings, HIV-prevention drugs and statins, which are currently provided to patients at no cost under the Affordable Care Act.
51% : In concluding that the task force's members are principal officers, the 5th Circuit said they were not properly appointed because they wield "unreviewable power" -- issuing preventive-care recommendations for services that insurers, in turn, must cover under the Affordable Care Act.
50% : She said that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., appoints task force members, can remove them at will, and can review their recommendations, including deciding not to give them "legal force" under the Affordable Care Act before they have binding effect.
46% : But groups backing Braidwood have argued that the task force is insulated from political accountability, as the ACA left no room for supervision by the Health and Human Services secretary or any other principal officer who answers to the president.

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