Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Law, LGBT Leaders Cheer
Except for gay conservative groups, the decision is seen as a victory for the president and LGBT Americans who disproportionately face barriers to accessing health care, advocates say.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the central provision of health care reform legislation on Thursday, keeping intact the law that improves access for LGBT Americans who disproportionately lack affordable care.
In a 5-4 decision issued on the final day of the court’s term, the justices voted to uphold the individual mandate, and thus preserve the entire law, known as the Affordable Care Act, under Congress’s authority to tax.
“The high court rejected the argument, advanced by the Obama administration, that the individual mandate was constitutional under the commerce clause of the Constitution,” reported the Washington Post. “But Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. joined the court’s four liberal justices – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen G. Breyer and Elena Kagan – in voting to uphold the mandate, ruling that a penalty for refusing to buy health insurance amounts to a tax.”
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