Texas Employers Fight Effort to Revive Preventive Care Rule (1)

A judgment that prevents the government from requiring employee health plans to pay in full for certain health-care services must stay in place while an appeal proceeds, two Texas businesses said.

Braidwood Management Inc., Kelley Orthodontics, and several individual plaintiffs won a judgment vacating part of Obamacare’s preventive services mandate back in March. There’s no reason to reinstate that provision while the decision is being reviewed, they told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Judge Reed O’Connor, of the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, correctly held that services recommended by the Preventive ...