The US Supreme Court has retained the main element of the Law on Acquisition, which helps to guarantee that health insurers are free of charge to patients for free care.
The judges set aside a lower court’s decision that the US Prevention Services Working Group The law plays an important role in choosing what services will be covered, and members who have not been properly appointed.
A lawsuit commenced in Texas, where two Christians’ businesses and individuals said that their health insurance plans should not be required for medical examinations and drugs contrary to religious bases, such as the preparation of HIV prevention drugs. However, the legal basis of the Supreme Court case was whether the working group is so powerful that, under the Constitution, its members must be appointed by the President and approve the Senate.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh 6-3 wrote to the majority that the Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may eliminate the members of the working group voluntarily and can review their recommendations before commencement of entry into force.
“The HHS Secretary may remove members of the working group, and the secretary may review their recommendations before entering,” he wrote. “Thus, the members of the working group are supervised and directed by the secretary who, in turn, responds to the president, preserving the leadership chain.”
The Secretary of Health and Human Services has always appointed members of the working group and ratified his recommendations, said Musumeci, Associate Professor at the Milken University of Milken, the University of Milken, the University of Milken, said.
However, the decision has expanded this government by explaining that the secretary can also remove members and block recommendations, she said.
Given that Kennedy has recently dismissed all 17 primary members of the advisory immunization practice, another panel of experts providing health recommendations, Musumei said “there is reason to worry.”
The secretary has never eliminated the ability to use preventive services that have been proven to help people stay healthy, nor does the Secretary “did not seek to form a membership of our expert group in any way,” said Michael Silverstein, Chairman of the Working Group. Email email Email email By mail.
“Although the HHS secretary has long had the LSPSTF authority, they historically only sought to increase access to preventive care, occasionally transcending evidence to ensure increased coverage of preventive services,” he said. “Given that our common attention is paid to the prevention of cancer and chronic diseases, we certainly hope that the secretary will allow our current work to continue not to disturb as before.”
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Katherine Hempstead, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a senior political officer in a non -profit organization, praised the High Court decision, as millions of Americans still have access to preventive care such as mental health checks, cancer testing, STIS testing and important medicines.
However, it also called the decision both the “end and the beginning”.
“This is the end of the challenge, but now it is something that will reveal where we will see that someone controls this group of experts with a very strong opinion about… many aspects of medical care,” she said.
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If Kennedy plans to direct the working group of preventive services, it is unclear what preventive services may be in danger, Musumei said. But in the end, insurance companies have a final decision. Even if the secretary vetoed a new recommendation or abolishes the existing one, insurance companies may still decide to cover the preventive service.
According to a report sent by USA Today, the USA Today report, the American Health Insurance Plans, the Commercial Association representing health insurance companies plans to monitor the legal process closely, but claims that the judgment will not affect any insurance.
Contribution: Maureen Groppe and Bart Jansen, USA today; Reuters.
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