Jun 22, 2021
On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued its highly anticipated opinion in the latest review of a challenge to the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”), passed by Congress in 2010 (aka “Obamacare”). The Court held, 7-2, that the original petitioners (principally Texas and other states) did not have “standing” – basically that they did not show the court that they were injured by an allegedly unlawful act (the ACA’s individual mandate, with zero penalty since 2017 for non-compliance), and thus did not have a basis for bringing the case. Therefore, the ACA remains intact.
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