The Supreme Court weighs in on Obamacare again.

From Marketplace, I'm Nancy Marshall Genser in for David Boncaccio.

The Supreme Court released an important decision involving the Affordable Care Act last week.

It involves what types of preventive care can be mandated for coverage as part of health insurance plans, and who gets to decide that?

Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman joins me now with the details.

Hi, Nancy.

So the Affordable Care Act has ended up in front of the Supreme Court three times before this.

What was this case about?

Well, it was basically a dispute about what kinds of preventive health care,

so that screenings, medications, and treatments have to be covered for free as part of private

health insurance plans. It was an argument brought by conservative opponents. They claimed that

the federal task force of independent medical experts that was set up to determine that mandatory bundle

of preventive health care was itself unconstitutional. And in a six to three decision,

the court upheld the task force's authority, meaning that a bunch of preventive care will

continue to be mandated. So what are we talking about here? What types of care? Well, the plaintiffs, a group of employers and individuals, objected in particular to having to pay for coverage of things like PrEP, which is a pre-exposure prophylactic treatment that can be used to prevent HIV transmission. But under this ruling, the task force's inclusion of that treatment is legal because the

task force itself is constitutional.

So what else is at stake here, then?

Well, advocates for preventive care are cheering because, by extension, a whole range of care

is also upheld and free.

So that's cancer and diabetes screening, meds for stroke

prevention, and heart health, even ointments given to newborns to prevent eye infections.

Well, thanks, Mitchell. You're welcome. With the big travel period coming up this Fourth of July

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