The Biden administration is working to preserve a crucial federal mandate compelling health insurers to cover preventive care services, including HIV-preventing medication and cancer screenings, without additional costs to patients.
This mandate is integral to the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA). But it faces challenges from a group of businesses led by Texas-based Christian wellness center operator Braidwood Management, which vehemently opposes mandatory coverage for HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).
Scheduled before a three-judge panel of the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the arguments revolve around the lawsuit brought by Braidwood, and others centered on the belief that providing coverage for PrEP infringes upon their religious convictions by ostensibly promoting …