Texas Judge To Hear Case Over ACA Preventive Measures Tuesday

Patient advocates are raising alarms over a constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act that claims Congress illegally delegated decision-making on preventive services to HRSA, ACIP and the USPSTF, saying, if successful, millions of Americans would lose access to key protections and a decade of work toward improving screenings and other preventative measures would be lost. Federal District Judge Reed O’ Connor, of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, who is well-known for ruling against the...