Thursday, March 28, 2024

Supreme Court will Decide Fate of Obamacare’s Individual Mandate

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*It’s going to happen. On Monday, after taking a cue from California’s attorney general, the Supreme Court says it will rule on a lawsuit brought by Texas and backed by the Trump administration that would strike down Obamacare, including its protections for tens of millions of Americans with preexisting medical conditions.

This will make the third time Obamacare has faced the highest court in the land, and each time it came out on the winning end of arguments, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. casting the key votes to reject broad conservative challenges.

The justices said they would hear the new case this fall just as voters are about to go to the polls. However, a decision won’t be made/announced until June of 2021. You can believe that with the elections this year, Democrats are super incentivized to keep a spotlight on the continuing effort by President Trump and the Republicans to throw out the healthcare law, including its expanded Medicaid coverage for low-income Americans and its subsidies for those who need help to buy health insurance.

At issue now is whether the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional because the Republican-controlled Congress voted in 2017 to stop applying a tax penalty on those who do not have insurance.

You can get MORE info at NBC News.

 

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