SCOTUS halts vaccine mandate for businesses, keeps Medicare/Medicaid funds linked healthcare worker mandate (Congress, health care)
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MARK SHERMAN and JESSICA GRESKO
Thu, January 13, 2022, 1:30 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job.
At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care workers in the U.S
Published Thu, Jan 13 2022
2:30 PM EST UPDATED 8 MIN AGO
by Kevin Breuninger, Spencer Kimball
The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from enforcing its sweeping vaccine-or-test requirements for large private companies, but allowed similar requirements to stand for medical facilities that take Medicare or Medicaid payments.
That mandate required that workers at businesses with 100 or more employees must get vaccinated or submit a negative Covid test weekly to enter the workplace. It also required unvaccinated workers to wear masks indoors at work.
“Although Congress has indisputably given OSHA the power to regulate occupational dangers, it has not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly,” the court wrote in an unsigned opinion.
“Requiring the vaccination of 84 million Americans, selected simply because they work for employers with more than 100 employees, certainly falls in the latter category,” the court wrote.
The ruling I expected, with the margin I expected, and the various judges ruled as I expected. The healthcare one I wasn’t as sure because I wasn’t sure which way Kavenaugh would bend. It’s funny, the Democrats fought hardest to keep the recent judge most friendly to their side off the bench.
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