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What was the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act?
The Supreme Court held in a 7–2 opinion that the states and individuals that brought the lawsuit challenging the ACA’s individual mandate do not have standing to challenge the law. The Supreme Court did not reach the merits of the challenge, but the decision ends the case.
What happened to the ACA in 2012?
On June 28, 2012, the justices narrowly upheld the constitutionality of the “individual mandate,” a requirement that nearly all Americans obtain health insurance. The Court did, however, limit ACA-mandated expansion of state Medicaid programs. Two key ACA programs were eliminated.
Is TrumpCare passed?
The American Health Care Act of 2017 (often shortened to the AHCA or nicknamed Trumpcare) was a bill in the 115th United States Congress. With the support of President Donald Trump, House Republicans introduced the AHCA in early 2017, and the bill passed the House in a close vote on May 4, 2017.
Is the Affordable Care Act now ‘dangling from a thread’?
As Nicholas Bagley, a law professor at the University of Michigan who specializes in health issues, tweeted: “Among other things, the Affordable Care Act now dangles from a thread.” Julie Rovner is senior Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News.
Should we be worried about the ACA case now?
While the fate of the ACA was, and is, a live political issue, few legal observers have been terribly worried about the legal outcome of the case now known as California v. Texas, if only because the case seemed much weaker than the 2012 and 2015 cases in which Roberts joined the court’s four liberals.
Is the ACA penalty a constitutional tax?
They based their argument on Chief Justice John Roberts’ 2012 conclusion that the ACA was valid, interpreting that penalty as a constitutionally appropriate tax. Most legal scholars, including several who challenged the law before the Supreme Court in 2012 and again in 2015, find unconvincing the argument that the entire law should fall.