ACA Preventive Care Guidance Must Be Revived, HHS Says (Correct)

A Texas federal judge had no basis for a decision that undercuts access to preventive health-care services for 150 million Americans, US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra told the Fifth Circuit.

Becerra is appealing a decision blocking the agency from enforcing recommendations made by a task force designated to determine which services ought to be covered cost-free by health insurers under a provision of the Affordable Care Act.

Judge Reed O’Connor, of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, held in March that the US Preventative Services Task Force didn’t have constitutional authority ...