ACA Preventive Care Under Fire…. Again

The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments to consider whether the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care coverage should be reinstated after a lower court struck it down. If the court rules in favor of the Texas employers who filed the case, tens of millions of people who get their health insurance from their employer or through the ACA marketplace would be impacted by the removal of these services, which require insurers to cover the full cost of everything from birth control to vaccines to mental health screenings. Since the enactment of the ACA in 2010, more than 2,000 legal challenges have been filed in state and federal courts contesting all or part of the law. While the law remains popular and enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplaces through the ACA has soared to more than 23 million people, challenges jeopardize the law and its effectiveness.

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