Supreme Court to hear challenge to ACA rule requiring free preventive care, cancer screenings
The Supreme Court will hear a challenge of preventive health care coverage mandated by the Affordable Care Act. The ruling could affect millions of Americans.
For a decade and a half, Americans have been guaranteed that no matter their health insurer, certain preventive care like cancer screenings are free of charge. That’s because an Affordable Care Act provision has required insurers to fully cover services given an A or B recommendation by an expert task force.
That may soon change. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to this statute in the case of Kennedy v. Braidwood Management. Either way the court decides, legal and medical experts told STAT, the ruling could have profound ramifications for the future of preventive health care in the United States.
