Becker's Healthcare May 2, 2019
The Department of Justice argued the ACA is unconstitutional and urged a federal judge to strike down the entire law in a brief filed in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 1, according to CNN.
Five things to know:
1. In the court filing, the Justice Department argues that the ACA’s individual insurance mandate penalty is unconstitutional and therefore the law should be struck down in its entirety.
2. The Justice Department filed the brief roughly a month after the agency first said it supports a judge’s ruling that the entire ACA should be invalidated. The judge sided with the Republican-led states that brought the lawsuit, Texas v. United States, calling...
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