The Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments Monday about the legality of the process to mandate cost-free preventive care used by millions of Americans, in a case brought by a group of Texas businesses objecting to coverage for an HIV preventive drug.
The U.S. government has asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit which held that a preventive care task force created by the 2010 health care law is unconstitutional and threw the preventive care approved by that body into legal uncertainty.
Experts said the justices, depending on how they decide the case, could end cost-free preventive care such as cancer screenings and imperil how the law handles vaccine policy and health care for children.
