‘The ACA remains the law of the land’: Massachusetts AG Maura Healey defends Obamacare as Supreme Court looks to decide whether to gut it
As the highest court in the country prepares to decide whether to gut the Affordable Care Act (ACA),
Oral arguments are expected to be heard Tuesday by the
In a legal challenge that made its way to the
However, the court has since shifted to a 6-3 conservative majority due to Republican incumbent President Donald Trump’s appointments of Justices
In 2018, a
The court instead sent the case back to the
In a statement released Monday, Healey said the coalition of 20 states along with the
The attorney general argued that in the midst of rising coronavirus cases and deaths nationwide, the Trump administration and the
“The ACA remains the law of the land and it needs to stay that way – we cannot let this Administration get away with sabotaging our health care,” Healey said. “I am joining my colleagues in defending the ACA in front of the
What is at stake if the law is gutted is health care for around 20 million Americans who can afford insurance either through the expansion of Medicaid or due to tax credits and plans through health care exchanges, according to the prosecutor. Those impacted citizens include nearly 422,000
Guaranteed health care coverage for roughly 133 million Americans who have a pre-existing conditions, including 2.5 or so million residents in the
An analysis from the
“Without state intervention, [a] repeal would take away health insurance from 422,000
The coalition Healey is on is led by
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