Health Affairs July 9, 2019
Katie Keith

On July 9, 2019, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals held a 1.5-hour hearing in Texas v. United States, a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the individual mandate and, with it, the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA). The hearing was over whether to affirm or reverse a district court decision that declared the entire ACA invalid. (Texas has been covered extensively on Health Affairs Blog; additional background and context on the case is available here.)

The panel included Judges Carolyn Dineen King (appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1979), Jennifer Walker Elrod (appointed by President George W. Bush in 2007) and Kurt D. Engelhardt (appointed by President George W. Bush to federal district court in 2001...

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), CMS, Congress / White House, Govt Agencies, Health System / Hospital, HHS, Insurance, Medicaid, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Physician, Primary care, Provider, Public Exchange, Regulations
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