AP:US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Obamacare's preventive care coverage mandate

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court seemed likely to uphold a key preventive-care provision of the Affordable Care Act in a case heard Monday.

Conservative justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, along with the court’s three liberals, appeared skeptical of arguments that Obamacare’s process for deciding which services must be fully covered by private insurance is unconstitutional.

The case could have big ramifications for the law’s preventive care coverage requirements for an estimated 150 million Americans. Medications and services that could be affected include statins to prevent heart disease, lung cancer screenings, HIV-prevention drugs and medication to lower the chance of breast cancer for high-risk women.

The plaintiffs argued that requirements to cover those medications and services are unconstitutional because a volunteer board of medical experts that recommended them should have been Senate- approved. The challengers have also raised religious and procedural objections to some requirements.

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-obamacare-preventive-care-302c4a0de7c72461a6617b8271b3fba6

[senseandsensibility]

1. Fingers crossed

hoping for something good among all the mayhem and dysfunction today.

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2. 👍🏼

[riversedge]

3. ABC: Supreme Court divided over Obamacare mandate for no-cost preventive health benefits

This article is not bleak--but not as rosy as OP either.


Supreme Court divided over Obamacare mandate for no-cost preventive health benefits

Justices to decide if a task force's recommendations are constitutional.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-hears-challenge-obamacare-cost-preventive-health/story?id=120926471


By Devin Dwyer
April 21, 2025, 3:05 PM

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Supreme Court weighs challenge to Obamacare's no-cost preventive health benefitsDr. Zeke Emanuel, an architect of Obamacare, reacts to the Supreme Court hearing a challenge that could eliminate no-cost preventive health care ben...

The Supreme Court appeared divided Monday over the constitutionality of a government task force that determines what preventive health care services insurers must cover at no cost under the Affordable Care Act of 2010...........

[Be The Light]

4. we need healthcare fuckers!

let's not make things overly complicated'

Take the profit motive out of the equation and focus on that.

To be clear. Get the insurance company's out of the way so we can

use that money for healthcare. It's not that complicated.

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5. repukes are something else

in their tiny minds the Constitution means every fucking moron can have a gun but oh NO it doesn't allow for HEALTHCARE, we cannot have THAT

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6. This would run contrary to Dr. Odd and his greed obsession nt