Health Affairs January 21, 2020
Katie Keith

On January 21, 2020, the Supreme Court denied a request from 21 Democratic attorney generals and the U.S. House of Representatives to expedite review of Texas v. United States. Expedited review would have enabled the Court to hear Texas this year, with a decision issued later this summer. By denying expedited review, the Court guarantees that the case will not be heard until its next term (at the earliest).

Texas was filed by 20 Republican state attorneys general and governors and two individuals after Congress zeroed out the individual mandate penalty in 2017. The plaintiffs argued that the penalty-less mandate is no longer constitutional and asked that the entire law be struck down. In December 2018, a federal district court...

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