The Supreme Court isn’t done with the ACA case yet. Here are the next steps.
Healthcare DIVE January 22, 2020
Tuesday’s one-sentence order from the U.S. Supreme Court denying a request to fast-track the challenge to the Affordable Care Act is not the final word from the high court.
The justices will now decide whether to take up the legal case threatening to overturn the landmark law during their next term, which begins in October.
Essentially, the order returns the case to the typical review process as a group of blue states, led by California’s Democratic Attorney General Xavier Becerra, try to convince the Supreme Court it should hear the case at some point instead of letting it wind its way back through the lower courts.
“The court did not say we’re not reviewing this case at all,” MaryBeth Musumeci,...