SCOTUS upholds part of ACA that makes preventive care fully covered

The USPSTF is made up of 16 medical experts who carefully review scientific data and run models to assess what preventive health interventions are best, using a framework of recommendation gradings from A to F. Any recommendations graded A or B by the task force are required by the ACA to be covered by health plans at no cost to patients.

The US health department argued that the task force members are, in fact, appointed, and under control of the health secretary, a role currently filled by anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Two lower courts in Texas sided with the Christian group, saying that the government violated the

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