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ACA’s Preventive Care Coverage Mandate Survives Supreme Court Test

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    Jun 27, 2025

    The Supreme Court on June 27 upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act's preventive care coverage mandate, ensuring that the 15-year-old law survived yet another legal challenge that made it to the highest court in the land.

    The ACA’s preventive care coverage mandate requires nearly all health insurers to cover government-recommended preventive services and drugs — such as vaccines, cancer screenings, birth control and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV — at no cost to their enrolled members.

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    • Leslie Small

    Leslie has been working in journalism since 2009 and reporting on the health care industry since 2014. She has covered the many ups and downs of the Affordable Care Act exchanges, the failed health insurer mega-mergers, and hundreds of other storylines spanning subjects such as Medicaid managed care, Medicare Advantage, employer-sponsored insurance, and prescription drug coverage. As the managing editor of Health Plan Weekly and Radar on Drug Benefits, she writes and edits for both publications while overseeing a small team of reporters who also focus on the managed care sector. Before joining AIS Health, she was a senior editor for the e-newsletter Fierce Health Payer, and she started her career as a copy editor at multiple local newspapers. She graduated with a dual degree in journalism and political science from Penn State University.

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