Health Law’s Preventive Care Mandate Curbed by Appeals Court (1)

Broad access to cost-free health insurance coverage for a range of medical services remains available but still threatened for many Americans following a federal appeals court’s Friday decision partially halting the US’s enforcement of Obamacare’s preventive services mandates.

The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stopped the US Department of Health and Human Services from enforcing one government board’s coverage recommendations against employers found to have standing to challenge them, but said that Judge Reed O’Connor’s solution—vacating all actions taken to enforce the mandates and universally halting them—was too broad. The court allowed nationwide coverage mandates to continue ...