Obamacare Case Presents Renewed Opportunity to Restrict Agencies

The Affordable Care Act is back before the US Supreme Court, this time giving the conservative majority another chance to dismantle the administrative state.

The case, scheduled for conference Friday, questions whether a board advising the Health and Human Services Department lacked constitutional authority to identify the preventive services that the ACA requires employer health plans to pay for in full.

If the justices find the board lacks that authority, the ruling would partially wipe out a key ACA provision and millions of Americans likely won’t be able to afford—and won’t get—cancer screenings, mental-health reviews, and preventive drugs that their ...