Steven Hotze provides a speech for same -sex marriage in front of the Supreme Court in 2015.Cliff Owen/AP
Over 10 years Americans with personal health insurance Dozens of types of prevention health care: Cholesterol drugs, fetal treatment and many types of cancer screening, as well as pre -exposure prevention (Prep),Miracle drug“But on Monday, on Monday, the US Supreme Court has heard of an oral claim that an insurance company can raise some of the Affordable Care Act, which requires the patient to cover these services at zero cost.
Kennedy vs. Braid Wood Management Be At least eighth The Supreme Court weighs on the main factor of the ACA since the Public Health Act was passed by the Obama administration in 2010.This lawsuit is bent by Christian businesses and individuals opposing Obamacare for ideological evidence and the Obamacare for ideological people, and US preventive service task force, independent prevention experts The lawsuit aims for a panel aims to be a volunteer specialist for various types of preventive treatment. The ACA must fully guarantee the “A” or “B” rating service by the task force.
Currently, the Task Force member is appointed by the Minister of Health and Welfare. However, the case of the Supreme Court claims that a civil servant is appointed by the Constitution and the president is appointed and exerts power to be confirmed by the Senate.
The legal argument is very technical and rarely deals with the great results of this case on public health on Monday. If the Ministry of Justice agrees with the plaintiff, you can abandon the task force and the recommendations for the last 15 years, and the insurer may now reject the scope of insurance coverage for dozens of free preventive screening and services or start a burden.
“Those who are the most hurt can take out their credit cards and pay for the cost of service, pay $ 50, or pay $ 80,” Wayne Turner said. National Health Law Program. “What people can find early is a literary lifetime.”
“Most people who are wounded are those who can take out their credit cards to pay for their service costs, pay $ 50 or $ 80.”
Among threatening services are free HIV screenings and are ready for those who have a high risk of virus contracts. HIV has become much less fatal since the mid -1990s 40,000 people In the United States, it was dying every year as a relevant cause Still almost almost almost According to the Health Policy Think Tank KFF, there are 32,000 new infections and 8,000 HIV connections every year. Prep — The first that the FDA approved the pills every day in 2012-Risk HIV was gained 99 % through sexual intercourse and 74 % through the use of injection drugs.
However, the drug can be expensive Up to $ 1,800 per monthWhen the prevention service task force granted a “A” rating in 2019, the use of the drug seems to have soared as the insurance covers 100 %. In 2015, 3 %of the people who recommended Prep prescription were one. 31 %in 2022 According to To the HIV and Hepatitis Policy Research Institute. Kennedy vs. Braidwood Threaten this progress.
In the center This lawsuit is Texas’ trio, which has become a conservative hero in the cultural war on LGBTQ and reproduction rights. judge They like to bring events.
The chief plaintiff, Braidwood Management, is owned by Steven Hotze, a 74 -year -old doctor, an alternative medical specialist in the Houston region. Power brokerFirst priority activist and Republican Mega Donner. my Mother Jones Fellow Tim Murphy wrote a former abortion lobbyist Hotze. campaign Discriminating against queer people legally house and employment. In 1985 he a Market candidate The best way to fight AIDS epidemics is “Shoot the queue. “A few years later, hotze crusades Submission of the Supreme Court in 2005 for the same -sex marriage in 2005. 2015 briefing It claims that same -sex marriage is “about the Bible.” (Hotze didn’t respond to the request.)
In 2020, Hotze is known to be I like covid conspiracy and Qanon slogan-Ip more than $ 260,000 to the former Houston police chief to carry out a personal investigation into Harris County’s voter fraud. The investigator has pursued an obscene theory that the air conditioner is transporting more than 750,000 counterfeit mail ballot sites signed by an unplased Hispanic child using his truck. Sugar Submitted by the repairman. Therefore, the investigator jumped the truck of the repair ball from the road and caught him in the muzzle while searching for trucks containing only air conditioning parts. Hotz Knowledge of Cobb’s plan Facing the repair ball. He was not guilty Say The prosecution is part of the conspiracy.
Now he is at the center of an event that can dismantle the core of the ACA.
Hotze has previously sued Obamacare. I challenge the 2013 law The taxation bill should begin with the House of Representatives, while some of the ACA was first introduced in the Senate. (He was also released Two techno tracks At that time, “What do Davey Crockett do? I know what I will do. I will fight Obama Care.”) However, the lower court judge abandoned the case and the 2016 Supreme Court is the Supreme Court. He refused to hear his appeal.
In 2020, Braid Wood executives and other manuscripts re -sued the ACA. Hotze was particularly opposed to the mandatory insurance coverage for prepared drugs. I insisted “It promotes behavior such as homosexual Sodom, prostitution and intravenous drugs that violate Dr. Hotze’s serious religious beliefs.”
“Our first and most immediate goal is to store this inexpensive medical law. This provision is very important to many people.”
Representing a different manuscript and other manuscript was not another person. Former General General, who is known to produce SB 8, Texas’s “Bounty Hunter” method than a legal strategist and former Texas lawyer Jonathan Mitchell. ROE V. Wade. Last year, Mitchell I served as President Donald TrumpThe lawyer in front of the Supreme Court insisted on the attempt of Colorado to exclude Trump in the 2024 vote.
MITCHELL previously represented the Braidwood Management example He violated HOTZE’s religious beliefs, claiming the title VII, a federal law that prohibits employment discrimination. In this case and current ACA 1, Mitchell has been filed in northern Texas and is still formally assigned. Another Texas conservative heroFederal Judge Lead O’Connor. In the judgment related to the constitution of the individual orders of the 2018 ACA, O’connor is already willing. Completely destroy the law. There was a 2018 decision Ultimately overturned The Supreme Court said that the Okonner should dismiss the case.
In the Braidwood case, Okoner handed Mitchell and partially won. Preparation insurance obligations have violated Hotze’s religious freedom and exempted Braidwood management from the requirements. Definitely, he also with them about additional technical arguments as a member of the US Prevention Service. Inappropriate appointment.
It is the second claim that the BIDEN administration appeals, and the Supreme Court is currently under review. Turner, a health policy lawyer, How to make a task force“It does not affect political pressure, independently, practically, and practical.” Braidwood Management claims that the grain is not too responsible for the task force. (This recommendation is It was made by other groups-Powerful conservative activists are currently aiming for major medical groups that present contraceptives, such as Susan Rinkunas. Recently reported ~ Jezebel.))
The Trump administration was surprisingly decided to fight against Braidwood’s challenge earlier this year. There is a Trump in the past I tried to abolish the medical law. But now his administration argued that the Task Force was responsible for the Minister of Health and Welfare, who was actually confirmed by Senate Trump.
Turner said that the Trump administration would eventually attempt to show more political control over the task force and its recommendations. “We saw the administration’s executive in other areas of the federal government and other areas of HHS, but he says that it is worth this value.” In my opinion, our first and most immediate goal is to store this inexpensive medical law. This is very important to many people. ”
Monday after verbal debate courthouse observer prediction Definition will ultimately reject the challenge of Obamacare in Hotze and Mitchell. The ruling is expected this summer.
