Supreme Court takes crucial Affordable Care Act case

[spanone]

The Supreme Court announced this morning that it will hear a major case against the Affordable Care Act, meaning the health care law's fate will be on the line in the middle of the 2020 presidential election.

Why it matters: The lawsuit — which is supported by the Trump administration — argues that the entire ACA should be struck down, including its most popular provisions, like its pre-existing conditions protections.

https://www.axios.com/supreme-court-affordable-care-act-case-2020-ef89e9a8-be5d-42e3-9c3b-289c6ff066df.html?stream=politics&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_politics

[Coventina]

1. And yet Trump says he is in favor of covering pre-existing conditions.

When will his cult members wake up?

Oh yeah, that's a never.

[spanone]

2. Hopefully this will show the country he is lying about that

it will make no difference to his cult members

[Crunchy Frog]

3. Yeah, strike it down right at the start of a pandemic.

That should help things.

[spanone]

4. Let the media ask, 'Where's your plan trump?'

[thesquanderer]

9. That needs to be Bloomberg's next ad...

While our country faces a pandemic, Trump's administration is in court trying to take people's health care away.

This after he already decimated the government departments charged with trying to keep us safe from these things.

[NewJeffCT]

5. I thought it was after the election?

I thought it would be HEARD this year, but the decision likely would not come until AFTER the election?

or, is this a different case?

[hedda_foil]

6. Same case and you are correct.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

7. While I am all in favor of Judicial Review

How many times can one law be (re-)litigated? Have there been any laws in the history of this country that have been litigated from multiple angles and so many times as ACA has?

[Hortensis]

8. Those who might midguidedly hope it's struck down should realize

that anything we tried to replace it with would come under the very same attacks. By then SCOTUS might have already effectively ruled ALL national healthcare unconstitutional, including Medicare. But if not already, ANY replacement healthcare law would be used to put the final nails in the coffin.

The biggest consequence by far of allowing Republicans to stay in power would be completing the packing of our upper courts with hard-right "originalists" and "textualists"* who would rule that the constitution does not allow things like Social Security or Medicare and does not guarantee an individual's right to contraception or use of the internet. Just for a couple of things they plan to eliminate while instituting a hierarchal authoritarianism.

(Words to put a pretend-principled mask on hard-right determination to destroy liberalism and progressivism in govenrment and instead use it to primarily serve anti-tax and anti-regulation plutocrats.)