Judge Blocks ACA Coverage Mandate For Cancer, Diabetes Screenings, PrEP – By Brendan Pierson (IB Times) / Mar 30 2023
A federal judge in Texas on Thursday blocked Obamacare’s mandate that health insurance plans cover preventive care, including screenings for cancer, diabetes and depression and pre-exposure prophylaxis against HIV (PrEP) at no cost to patients.
U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor in Fort Worth, Texas, previously found that the PrEP mandate violated a federal religious freedom law and that other no-cost preventive care mandates were based on recommendations by an illegally appointed task force.
The judge has now blocked the federal government from enforcing the mandates, a victory for conservative businesses and individuals that sued to challenge them in 2020.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which administers the Affordable Care Act (ACA), as Obamacare is formally called, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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