Court Will Rule Soon on ACA’s Preventive Coverage Mandate
April
29
Although the Affordable Care Act has now survived multiple legal challenges heard by the Supreme Court, the 12-year-old law does not appear to be home free yet. A case currently pending before a Texas district court — which could make it up to the highest court in the land — threatens to dismantle the ACA’s mandate that group and individual health plans must fully cover preventive services such as birth control and vaccines.
If the lawsuit is successful in striking down or weakening one of the ACA’s more popular provisions, it would also raise the question of whether private health plans would stop covering certain preventive services with zero cost sharing. According to industry experts, the answer isn’t so simple.
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