News Briefs: Trump’s DOJ Will Defend the ACA Preventive Services Coverage Mandate
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Feb 21, 2025
The Dept. of Justice (DOJ) under Donald Trump’s administration will defend the Affordable Care Act’s preventive services coverage mandate from a legal challenge that has reached the Supreme Court. The DOJ wrote in a Feb. 18 filing that it will maintain the position of Joe Biden’s administration, which held that agencies — the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, and the Health Resources and Services Administration — are within their rights to recommend which preventive services must be fully covered by private health insurers. In June 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a lower court ruling that the government should stop enforcing the mandated coverage of USPSTF-recommended services, although the ruling only applies to the plaintiffs.
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