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U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses - Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses - Reuters

U.S. Supreme Court blocks Biden vaccine-or-test policy for large businesses - Reuters
Jan 13, 2022 1 min, 0 secs

Supreme Court on Thursday blocked President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccination-or-testing mandate for large businesses - a policy the conservative justices deemed an improper imposition on the lives and health of many Americans - while endorsing a separate federal vaccine requirement for healthcare facilities.

The vote was 5-4 to allow the healthcare worker rule, which requires vaccination for about 10.3 million workers at 76,000 healthcare facilities including hospitals and nursing homes that accept money from the Medicare and Medicaid government health insurance programs for elderly, disabled and low-income Americans.

In a statement, Biden said the court's decision allowing the healthcare worker mandate "will save lives" and his administration will enforce it.

The United States Supreme Court in Washington, U.S., May 17, 2021.

Four conservative justices dissented from the healthcare facility decision, concluding that Congress had not given the federal agency the authority to require vaccinations for millions of healthcare workers.

Enforcement was blocked in Texas by a lower court in separate litigation not at issue before the Supreme Court

Gerald Harmon, president of the American Medical Association physicians group, said that although he is pleased the court allowed the healthcare worker mandate, the broader workplace rule is also needed

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