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The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands
- On June 26, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a 6-3 decision in Kennedy v. Braidwood, affirming the continuation of no-cost preventive health services mandated by the Affordable Care Act.
- The lawsuit began in 2020 when Braidwood Management and other plaintiffs contested the constitutionality of how members were appointed to the federal panel responsible for developing preventive healthcare recommendations.
- Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the decision, concluding that task force members are inferior officers appointed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services, who answers to the President.
- The decision mandates that insurers provide preventive care supported by the federal panel without any out-of-pocket expenses, maintaining coverage for roughly 150 million Americans each year.
- This decision maintains the ACA’s preventive care structure and Medicaid coverage, though future changes depend on Congressional action and political shifts.
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The Braidwood decision and HHS
This is part of SCOTUSblog’s term in review series, in which scholars analyze some of the most significant cases of the 2024-25 Supreme Court term. In Kennedy v. Braidwood Management, Inc., the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional challenge to the procedure used to appoint members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force to their positions. In doing so, the court upheld the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that health insurers cover a rang…
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The Supreme Court upholds free preventive care, but its future now rests in RFK Jr.’s hands
On June 26, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 6-3 ruling that preserves free preventive care under the Affordable Care Act, a popular benefit that helps approximately 150 million Americans stay healthy.
RFK Jr.’s health department calls Nature “junk science,” cancels subscriptions - WorldNL Magazine
The move comes after HHS Secretary and anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on a May 27 podcast that prestigious medical journals are "corrupt." "We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, and those other journals because they’re all corrupt," he said. He accused the journals collectively of being a "vessel for pharmaceutical propaganda." He went on to say that "unless these journals…
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