Current Events > Fed Judge: insurers no don't have to provide preventive cancer and heart screeni

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/30/politics/affordable-care-act-preventive-care-reed-oconnor/index.html

Federal judge says insurers no longer have to provide some preventive care services, including cancer and heart screenings, at no cost

A federal judge in Texas said Thursday that some Affordable Care Act mandates cannot be enforced nationwide, including those that require insurers to cover a wide array of preventive care services at no cost to the patient, including some cancer, heart and STD screenings, and tobacco programs.
In the new ruling, US District Judge Reed OConnor struck down the recommendations that have been issued by the US Preventive Services Task Force, which is tasked with determining some of the preventive care treatments that Obamacare requires to be covered.
The decision applies to task force recommendations issued on or after March 23, 2010 the day the Affordable Care Act was signed into law. While the group had recommended various preventive services prior to that date, nearly all have since been updated or expanded.

OConnors ruling comes after the judge had already said that the task forces recommendations violated the Constitutions Appointments Clause. The judge also deemed unlawful the ACA requirement that insurers and employers offer plans that cover HIV-prevention measures such as PrEP for free.
Other preventive care mandates under the ACA remain in effect.
The full extent of the rulings impact and when its effects could be felt are unclear.
The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal on Friday. The Biden administration is also appealing OConnors earlier ruling that the task forces recommendations violated the Constitutions Appointments Clause and that requiring HIV-prevention drugs to be covered at no cost violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
The challengers in the case individuals and employers in Texas lost on several of their other claims against the preventive care mandates. Its possible they file their own appeal of OConnors rulings.
The Justice Department has not filed a request that OConnors rulings be paused for the appeal. It is not clear if the administration plans to ask for that pause.
We will do everything we can to protect and defend Americans rights to the health care they need and deserve, said Kamara Jones, a Department of Health and Human Services spokeswoman.
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre called the case yet another attack on the Affordable Care Act.

The decision, in a case brought by employers and individuals in Texas, represents the latest legal affront to the landmark 2010 health care law. It is unclear what immediate practical effect OConnors new ruling will have for those with job-based and Affordable Care Act policies because insurance companies will likely continue no-cost coverage for the remainder of the contracts even though the Obamacare requirements in question have been blocked. Contracts often last one calendar year.
OConnors Thursday ruling is expected to kick off a new phase of the legal battle over Obamacares preventive care measures. The judge rejected other claims that the ACAs foes brought against the law including challenges to the entities that determine no-cost coverage mandates for vaccines, an assortment of womens health preventive care treatments, and services for infants and children. Its possible that the plaintiffs appeal those aspects of OConnors handling of the case, which could put at risk coverage requirements for additional preventive services at no cost.

Texas.

Do they still have to cost as much as they do now?

Fed Judge: insurers no don't have to provide preventive cancer and heart screeni

Superman no here

That judge is a total piece of shit. It's not the first time he's gone after Obama Care, either.

Gritty posted...

Texas.

Federal Judge

KainWind posted...

Do they still have to cost as much as they do now?

cost more and go up later too

For profit healthcare needs to end

So much greed in our system, it truly is on borrowed time, we might become what the UK has become in a few decades

Somebody explain to me why one judge in Texas is allowed to single-handedly determine what health care for the entire country will be like

WingsOfGood posted...

Federal Judge

In Texas

the stank carries

Republicans are literally out here trying to kill people with cancer.

cjsdowg posted...

Republicans are literally out here trying to kill people with cancer.

Only poor people, and poor people aren't people to conservatives.

tremain07 posted...

So much greed in our system, it truly is on borrowed time, we might become what the UK has become in a few decades

brexit > trump
BFL racists > Maga racists
tories sacrificing the country for bucks > GOP doing the same

the uk is like our crystal ball

A federal judge in texas can, in no uncertain terms, go fuck himself.

DOOM-64 posted...

brexit > trump
BFL racists > Maga racists
tories sacrificing the country for bucks > GOP doing the same

the uk is like our crystal ball

Tories so shit that everybody hates them yet keeps giving them back power because the other side is full of incompetants at best and corrupt pro tory obstrutionists at worse> Democrats being penetrated by grifters and right wingers pretending to be Democratic or Progressives, winning then suddenly switching over to Republicans. We just had another Sinema recently but I forget the name

I don't even see the point of having insurance anymore. Next year my insurance is going to be dropped by a local health care system that controls nearly every health care office in the area.

What a monumental douche bag.

I will laugh when Karma catches up with him

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

I will laugh when Karma catches up with him

Doesn't exist

DarthAragorn posted...

Doesn't exist

Look I'm trying to say things in a way that doesn't get me suspended okay?

TMOG posted...

Somebody explain to me why one judge in Texas is allowed to single-handedly determine what health care for the entire country will be like

The way it works is a law gets passed: Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act.
People sue over this law and most of those lawsuits come from Texas.
Courts hear the cases and they go through the court systems hierarchy.
Eventually a Federal Judge hears the case.

However, he was not put into his office by Texas fyi.

https://www.uscourts.gov/faqs-federal-judges

Who appoints federal judges?
Supreme Court justices, court of appeals judges, and district court judges are nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as stated in the Constitution. The names of potential nominees are often recommended by senators or sometimes by members of the House who are of the President's political party. The Senate Judiciary Committee typically conducts confirmation hearings for each nominee. Article III of the Constitution states that these judicial officers are appointed for a life term. The federal Judiciary, the Judicial Conference of the United States, and the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts play no role in the nomination and confirmation process.
How are new judgeships created?
Court of appeals and district court judgeships are created by legislation that must be enacted by Congress. The Judicial Conference (through its Judicial Resources Committee) surveys the judgeship needs of the courts every other year. A threshold for the number of weighted filings per judgeship is the key factor in determining when an additional judgeship will be requested. Other factors may include geography, number of senior judges, and mix of cases. The Judicial Conference presents its judgeship recommendations to Congress.
What are the qualifications for becoming a federal judge?
The Constitution sets forth no specific requirements. However, members of Congress, who typically recommend potential nominees, and the Department of Justice, which reviews nominees' qualifications, have developed their own informal criteria.

Likely he was a Trump appointee.

well I was wrong

he was appointed by Bush in 2007

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_O%27Connor

Reed Charles O'Connor (born June 1, 1965) is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. He was nominated by President George W. Bush in 2007.

Don't mess with Texas