HealthLeaders Media June 26, 2020
Jack O'Brien

The Trump administration argues in a Thursday filing that the entire ACA “must fall with the individual mandate.”

In a Thursday night filing with the Supreme Court, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) must be struck down in its entirety.

The Trump administration argued in its brief that the individual mandate, which was zeroed out as part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), cannot be severed from the remainder of the ACA and that therefore, the entire law must fall.

“Nothing the 2017 Congress did demonstrates it would have intended the rest of the ACA to continue to operate in the absence of these three integral provisions,” the filing...

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