Health Affairs October 18, 2024
As the US Supreme Court begins its 2024–25 term, the possibility looms that it might put yet another consequential case on its docket concerning the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This time, the case concerns one of the law’s most popular provisions—its preventive services mandate.
Meanwhile, recent trends in the Court’s jurisprudence on the role of regulators and experts—most notably its overturning of Chevron—raise the specter of greater political and judicial involvement in determining which preventive services must be covered by health insurance.
In the balance is access to preventive care for more than 150 million Americans.
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