Little-known Texas judge just made waves with a controversial Obamacare ruling. -MaddowBlog
added that in the same ruling, O’Connor rejected the US Preventive Services Task Force, which recommended PrEP be added to the ACA’s list of covered preventive measures.
In terms of the consequences, legal experts can speak to these questions with more authority than I can, and today’s ruling will be appealed to the 6th Circuit, where Republican-appointed jurists dominate. In the meantime, there are a variety of concerns, not just about affordable public access to groundbreaking HIV treatments — a lifeline to many patients nationwide — but also to ACA coverage of a wide range of other preventive benefits, including vaccines, flu shots, and cancer screenings.
But as the legal, policy, and political worlds digest this new ruling, it’s also worth pausing to acknowledge the jurist responsible for the ruling. It’s probably safe to assume most Americans have never heard of Judge Reed O’Connor of the Northern District of Texas. But as regular readers mayThe week before Christmas in 2018, for example, a judge agreed to
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