The law must stand: With our without the individual mandate, the Affordable Care Act must remain on the books
With Justice
Obamacare is gargantuan and complex. It sets up health-insurance marketplaces for the self-employed, authorizes subsidies to make that insurance more affordable, encourages states to expand Medicaid, prevents insurers from discriminating against people with preexisting conditions, and more.
One piece was the individual mandate, deemed constitutional in a
No more. Three years ago,
Moreover, the larger law has proven pragmatically resilient since. Which probably didn’t surprise one
The question for the nation’s highest court as it hears oral arguments today in California vs. Texas is simple: Can legislators excise one provision of what Barrett in her confirmation hearings called “a very long statute” without a court then forcing the entire complex architecture to collapse?
The answer is obvious: Lest Barrett,
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