Supreme Court declined to hear case challenging legality of ACA
Fierce Healthcare January 21, 2020
The Supreme Court declined to speed up a review of a lawsuit challenging the legality of the Affordable Care Act.
The Supreme Court will wait for a federal appeals court to decide on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, meaning that a final decision on the law won’t come before the 2020 election.
The court declined on Tuesday to hear a lawsuit from 17 red states that seeks to dismantle the controversial healthcare law. A group of 20 blue states and the District of Columbia who are fighting the lawsuit had asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the case and circumvent a likely lengthy review by an appellate court.
The blue states had wanted the Supreme Court...