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The next right-wing effort to limit your health care options is already in court [1]
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Date: 2022-07-26
The far right is tireless in its efforts to dismantle basic protections for everyone in the U.S. Tuesday, one of the leading right-wing lawyers—known as the architect of the Texas six-week abortion ban—was in court making yet another argument to gut the Affordable Care Act. This time, the plan of attack is to take away the ACA’s requirement for insurance to cover preventive care for free, without copays.
Preventive care, of course, saves money by preventing more expensive treatments from being required. But to the people bringing the suit, originally filed in March of 2020, who Politico characterize as “a group of Texas residents and employers and backed by former Trump officials,” preventive care is unacceptable because people they disapprove of might be protected. Or, as they put it, STD screenings and HIV prevention drugs “facilitate and encourage homosexual behavior, prostitution, sexual promiscuity, and intravenous drug use.”
They want people to be charged for preventive care, even though the costs of people not getting preventive care are significantly higher. It is cheaper to prevent HIV than to treat it for decades. It is cheaper to screen for HPV than to treat advanced cervical cancer. The very obvious underlying logic here is that they want people to suffer for having sex outside of heterosexual marriage.
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