Federal judge in Texas strikes down Affordable Care Act CNN

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By Ariane de Vogue and Tami Luhby, CNN


https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/12/14/politics/texas-aca-lawsuit/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F

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(CNN) — A federal judge in Texas said on Friday that the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law must also fall.

"The Court ... declares the Individual Mandate ... unconstitutional," District Judge Reed O'Connor wrote in his decision. "Further, the Court declares the remaining provisions of the ACA ... are inseverable and therefore invalid."

The case against the ACA, also known as Obamacare, brought by 20 Republican state attorneys general and governors, as well as two individuals. It revolves around Congress effectively eliminating the individual mandate penalty by reducing it to $0 as part of the 2017 tax cut bill.

The Republican coalition is arguing that the change rendered the mandate itself unconstitutional. They say that the voiding of the penalty, which takes effect next year, removes the legal underpinning the Supreme Court relied upon when it upheld the law in 2012 under Congress' tax power. The mandate requires nearly all Americans to get health insurance or pay a penalty.


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[roamer65]

1. I think we need to convene a Medicaid expansion state governor's conference.

The topic should be the formation of a single payor system for those states, serving only the current residents of those states.

Residency of these states will then need to be treated like citizenship, to prevent exploitation of the system.

[James48]

3. This---

Single payer Medicare/Medicaid acaikabje for all the States that expanded Medicaid under ACA.

You Red States that didn’t- too bad.

[HopeAgain]

2. Texas, of course. nt