The ACA’s Preventive Services Benefit Is in Jeopardy: What Can States Do to Preserve Access?

Last year, a judge in the Northern District of Texas ruled that much of the ACA’s preventive services requirement is unconstitutional. While the litigation may take years to play out, this case has the potential to cut off millions of peoples’ access to crucial health services, ranging from contraceptives to flu shots. In the absence of federal requirements that guarantee no-cost access to preventive services, r