The justices heard arguments in a constitutional challenge to a task force that decides what treatments are covered at no cost.

Various Supreme Court justices appeared to agree with the federal government Monday that the president need not appoint members of a task force in charge of recommending the preventive services that insurance companies must cover under the Affordable Care Act.

I think that everybody in this country, whether you are Republican, Democrat or independent or other, believes that preventive services…should be free,” Sapienza said. “T