The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the current structure and appointment of the body within the Department of Health and Human Services that determines what preventive care measures must be covered by insurance under Obamacare.
In a 6-3 vote, the majority found in the case Kennedy v. Braidwood Management that the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force are “inferior officers” under the appointments clause of the Constitution, meaning that they do not need to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate.
Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion, to which Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonja Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson joined. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
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The case was widely
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