WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of a key component of the Affordable Care Act that effectively gives a task force established under the landmark healthcare law known as Obamacare the ability to require that insurers cover preventive medical care services at no cost to patients.
The justices took up an appeal by Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration of a lower court’s ruling that sided with a group of Christian businesses who objected to their employee health plans covering HIV-preventing medication and had argued that the task force’s structure violated the U.S. Constitution.
(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston, Editing by Will Dunham)
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