Fierce Healthcare February 28, 2018
Jonathan H. Burroughs

Can the ACA survive the latest legal challenge? And what are the consequences if it doesn’t?

Yesterday, twenty states sued the federal government in US District Court in the Northern District of Texas over the Affordable Care Act, claiming that with the repeal of the individual mandate (considered a constitutional tax by the Supreme Court’s decision in 2012), the entire law was no longer constitutional and therefore is now invalid.

Can the federal law withstand the latest of many legal challenges? And what would be the consequences of a successful repeal?

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Topics: ACA (Affordable Care Act), Healthcare System, Medicaid, Medicare, Patient / Consumer, Payer, Public Exchange, Regulations
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