A federal appeals court on Friday ruled that the preventive care task force created under the 2010 health care law is unconstitutional, but stopped short of blocking access to preventive care for millions of Americans.
The New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held that relief should be targeted to the plaintiffs in the case — a group of Texas businesses with religious objections to the preventive care requirements imposed after the law passed in 2010, which include covering the HIV preventative drug PrEP.
Other examples of such care include lung cancer screenings and medications to lower the risk of breast cancer.
