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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is trying to decide whether to keep an Affordable Care Act provision that requires insurers to offer no-cost preventive care tests. The court heard arguments Monday on whether the procedure for deciding which tests can be included under the national insurance program is legally flawed. A group of Christian plaintiffs are most bothered by the requirement for insurers to provide free HIV tests and medications. They said in their court filings that their contributions to the health insurance fund are inadvertently making them “complicit in facilitating homosexual behavior.” If they win their lawsuit, insurers could be relieved of the costs of the tests, passing them back to patients and undercutting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. The free tests are one of the most popular parts of the 15-year-old health insurance law, allowing early warning detection of high cholesterol, cancer, diabetes and other potentially deadly ailments. Obamacare is credi

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