Supreme Court Dismisses Obamacare Challenge, Leaves Law Intact
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The Supreme Court rejected the latest GOP attempt to challenge the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, ruling 7-2 that the plaintiffs did not have standing to challenge the law. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote the majority opinion, arguing that the plaintiffs could not bring their case to federal court because they had not shown any harm "fairly traceable" to Obamacare’s individual mandate, which Republicans lowered to $0 in 2017. Obamacare was still expected to survive beyond the question of standing, thanks to the opinions of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh that the individual mandate could be "severed" from the rest of the law. The court’s ruling leaves the entire law intact, including the individual mandate.
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The Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act on Thursday in a decision that will leave the law intact and save health care coverage for millions of Americans. The justices turned away a challenge from Republican-led states and the former Trump administration, which urged the justices to block the entire law.
The justices said that the challengers of the 2010 law did not have the legal right to bring the case.
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