Supreme Court will once again consider fate of Affordable Care Act

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Washington Post

The Supreme Court will hear a third challenge to the Affordable Care Act, this time at the request of Democratic-controlled states that are fighting a lower court decision that challenged the constitutionality of the law. The court’s review will probably come in the term that begins in October, which would not leave time for a decision before the November election. The law remains in effect.

The court earlier had turned down a motion by the House of Representatives and Democratic-led states to hear the case this term.They want review of a decision last year by a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The panel struck down the law’s mandate that individuals buy health insurance but sent back to a lower court the question of whether the rest of the statute can stand without it. The lower court had said the entire law must fall.

The House of Representatives had told the Supreme Court that the 5th Circuit decision “poses a severe, immediate, and ongoing threat to the orderly operation of health-care markets throughout the country, casts considerable doubt over whether millions of individuals will continue to be able to afford vitally important care, and leaves a critical sector of the nation’s economy in unacceptable limbo.”

The House and Democratic states have been eager to get the issue before the Supreme Court because the majority that has upheld the ACA in two previous Supreme Court challenges remains.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-will-once-again-consider-fate-of-affordable-care-act/2020/03/02/40e08a62-5c90-11ea-b014-4fafa866bb81_story.html

[underpants]

1. Thanks. Saw the headline

[BumRushDaShow]

2. Yeah - I got a WaPo breaking news banner

Wasn't sure what was being "revisited" until I read the article and was surprised that at least it was about an appeal from Democrats (although I hope to heck the SCOTUS doesn't use this to finish the whole thing off ).

[underpants]

7. Someone should sue about the Risk Corridors

That’s what shut down all the plan options. Rubio is credited for “sneaking” that in. The funding is still there as far as I know but allocating it is prohibited.

[rampartc]

3. i think the supreme court may uphold the lower court on partisan grounds.

effectively killing the affordable care act.

i'm really afraid that next they will be challenging medicare and medicaid.

[enid602]

4. challenge

Why would they need to challegn MDedicare and SS? Trump's tax reform has already defunded them. $1 Trillion deficit this year alone.

[rampartc]

5. i agree

but the programs are still constitutional, something that the repubs have never accepted.

[yaesu]

6. everyone talks about building on ACA, well, by the time the fascists are done there won't be

anything to build on.

[Ohiogal]

8. Why can't those MFers leave it alone?

I have a subsidy for a Bronze plan and am 2 years away from Medicare. I guess I have to start sweating bullets now, especially if the orange asshole gets re-elected. I am a cancer survivor so I have a pre-existing condition.

[roamer65]

14. Because it interferes with their plans to kill people.

Alan Grayson was right. The Repuke health plan is for us to die.

[Danmel]

15. Every one has a preexisting condition

Insurers deny coverage to people with acne.
We are screwed. My kids and I have a somewhat rare neurological condition. Without the ACA we are uninsurable. I'm 5 years from Medicare assuming these mfers don't kill that too but my kids are in their 20s. My husband has high blood pressure. The stress doesn't help either.
And how much this makes me hate them doesn't make it better.
More anxiety every day.

[PoliticAverse]

9. "The House and Democratic states have been eager to get the issue before the Supreme Court

because the majority that has upheld the ACA in two previous Supreme Court challenges."

[Yavin4]

10. If the SCOTUS strikes down the ACA, we have no choice but to fight for Medicare for All

Any other federal regulation of health insurance will be struck down by the courts.

[in2herbs]

11. Another partisanship example by the SC. They quickly resolve rump's petitions (in rump's favor) but

will leave the public swinging in the wind about health care. The next pres better expand the SC.

[beachbumbob]

12. either way the decision goes will benfit the democrats

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

13. This is what playing the purity game gets us

For what ever Al Gore's or Hillary Clinton's faults were they were better people than those who ended up in the Whitehouse.

[BigmanPigman]

16. Deal with it now. With the new virus and all those costs in

our terribly broken health care system I would love them to deal with it now, before the election and when everyone is freaked by the new virus.

[cstanleytech]

17. I read that Trump and the Republicans are trying to get SCOTUS to delay a ruling until after

the election as they are terrified of the blowback from taking away people's health insurance even though they have been promising their base that was what they were going to do since the ACA was signed into law.