Could the Supreme Court gut preventative care under Obamacare?

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🗓️ 21 April 2025

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Summary

Yes — Obamacare is before the Supreme Court, again. This time, the case centers on the legality of an advisory task force. Experts worry it could spell the end of an ACA mandate requiring insurers to cover certain preventative care services at no cost. But first: Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is caught up in another Signal group chat scandal. Plus, Paul Revere wasn’t the only midnight rider to warn that the British were coming.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

"‘An amateur person’: GOP Rep. Bacon says Hegseth should go" from Politico

"Obamacare returns to SCOTUS, with preventive care on the line" from Politico

"Court to hear challenge to ACA preventative-care coverage" from Scotus Blog

"Kristi Noem’s Purse, With Security Badge and $3,000, Is Stolen" from The New York Times

"Paul Revere Wasn't the Only Midnight Rider Who Dashed Through the Darkness to Warn the Patriots That the British Were Coming" from Smithsonian Magazine

"April 18, 2025" from Heather Cox Richardson

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0:00.0	All right, I'll be ready.
0:07.6	Hey, everybody, I'm Kai Rizal.
0:08.9	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:12.8	And I am Kimberly Adams.
0:14.3	Thank you for joining us on this Monday, April the 21st.
0:17.6	We've got news, and at least I have a smile today.
0:20.0	Let's start with the news.
0:25.0	I do, too. I do too. Oh, do.. I had to scroll down that far. It's a little Oh man. That's so funny. You know what's really funny? I literally broke the microphone. Wait, let's leave it on. Let's just keep rolling. I'll get Pablo in here to fix it later. But holy cow. So the whole boom arm came off oh no yeah so you know
0:40.6	any who and it's not even live radio and it's not even live radio which is why everybody's going to
0:46.0	hear this they're going to hear it as opposed to if it had been actually on live radio in which case
0:51.3	oh my god uh so okay all right i'm normal now. So here's mine. Oh, my God,
0:57.9	P. Heggseth, are you kidding me? Come on, man, for the second time now, he has invited other
1:05.6	people to a chat. Well, let's be clear. The first time he didn't do it. There's another
1:09.7	incident of the Secretary of Defense
1:11.2	sharing classified information, although the White House denies is classified. It really is classified. Trust me.
1:15.9	Believe me. And also common sense. In a signal chat with people like, oh, his wife and his personal
1:22.7	lawyer. Hello? What? Anyway, so we've all seen that news, hopefully. But here's the really interesting part. Republicans now are starting to say, what the what? So Don Bacon, who is a retired Air Force guy, I believe, came out today, Republican, as I said, and says, Hexas should go. So I don't know. We'll see.
1:44.9	We'll see.
1:47.2	Yeah.
1:52.1	I'm trying to think how to, like.
1:54.9	Yeah, it's gone.
1:58.4	I'm trying to think about a way to phrase what I want to say without immediately getting the reaction from you of, come on, Kimberly.
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