Posted on 06/21/2024 3:59:16 PM PDT by CFW
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, America First Legal (AFL) and co-counsel Jonathan F. Mitchell secured a resounding win before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Braidwood Management Inc. v. Becerra. A unanimous panel of the Fifth Circuit held that a key provision of the Affordable Care Act violates Article II’s Appointments Clause by empowering the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to dictate the preventive care that all private insurers must cover. In other words—unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats don’t get to make unilateral decisions about Americans’ healthcare coverage, which has led to tremendous increases in the cost of insurance for all Americans.
The Affordable Care Act, also known as “Obamacare,” requires all private health insurers to cover preventive care without any cost-sharing arrangements such as copays or deductibles. It also requires private insurers to cover any preventive care that receives an “A” or “B” rating from the United States Preventive Services Task Force.
AFL argued that this arrangement violates Article II of the Constitution because the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force wield significant powers yet are not appointed as “officers of the United States” as required by Article II. The Fifth Circuit unanimously agreed and held that the members of the Task Force are “principal officers” who must be appointed by the President with the Senate’s advice and consent and that the Affordable Care Act violates Article II’s Appointments Clause by empowering the Task Force to impose preventive-care coverage mandates on private insurers.
Effectively, all preventive-care coverage mandates imposed by the Task Force since March 23, 2010, are unenforceable in the Fifth Circuit, and private insurers in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi need not comply with them.
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Don't forget, they are supplying illegals with this "care" at the cost of taxpayers. Bureaucracy is causing the cost of healthcare and insurance to spiral higher and higher.
That’s not all doctors do
It is a good win, but if we really want to win BIG, Trump needs to issue an Executive Order forcing ALL Non Military Federal Employee’s enroll in Obamacare as their primary health care provider and eliminate ALL Waivers. If it’s a Good Law there is nothing to worry about.
FORCE CONGRESS to Live under their own rules.
If I was still an optimist I would call this a possible crack in the dike...
It IS a good win. It means that I’m can’t be forced into a policy which forcers me to pay for treating other people’s AIDS, smoker’s lung cancer, etc. while forcing me to pay for the care which I need out of my pocket.
2nd try: It IS a good win. It means that I can’t be forced into a policy which forces me to pay for treating other people’s AIDS, smoker’s lung cancer, etc. while forcing me to pay for the care which I need out of my pocket.
wow. real winning. thank you AFL and thank you Founders.
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