Quite unexpectedly this is the second post in an unplanned series about preventative insurance care coverage. After I posted on Monday about being charged for my annual check up, I ran across this article stating that annual check ups and other preventative care claims will no longer be covered under the Affordable Care Act.
Link: Court Strikes Down Coverage of Preventative Care
It seems that a Texas judge who has previously ruled against other aspects of ObamaCare has now ruled that the "Preventive Services Task Force" that decides which procedures / visits are preventative were appointed illegally. (Don't ask me why).
It sounds like this will all get appealed and adjudicated at the next level of the Federal courts, but I'm guessing that will take several more years. The scales of justice move slowly, after all. In the meantime, the Department of Health & Human Services estimates that 150 million Americans (about 45% of us) will miss these "free" preventative care visits.
Except the ones who were billed anyway on "upcharges" like me!
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