{"id":566669,"date":"2021-06-17T11:06:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566669"},"modified":"2021-06-17T11:06:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T15:06:50","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-obamacare-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-upholds-obamacare-in-full\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare in Full"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-upholds-obamacare-in-full%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=566669&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"27.951807228916\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/courts\/\">The Courts<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">7-2 decision likely an end to battle over health care law<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Obamacare-736x491-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt=\"Obamacare\" srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Obamacare-736x491.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Obamacare-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Obamacare-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Obamacare-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Obamacare-e1611170652791.jpg 726w\" data-sizes=\"auto\"  style=\"display:none\"><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tGetty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/kevin-daley\/\" title=\"Posts by Kevin Daley\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Kevin Daley<\/a> \u2022 June 17, 2021 10:50 am<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"105.92839717004\">\n<p><span>The Supreme Court on Thursday again upheld the entirety of the Affordable Care Act, rebuffing a constitutional attack on the law from a group of red states backed by the Trump administration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The vote was 7-2, with Justice Stephen Breyer delivering the Court\u2019s opinion over the dissent of Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. The Court said the red state coalition has no legal basis, or standing, for challenging the law. The decision means there will be no changes for enrollees, and the law\u2019s most popular provisions, including coverage for people with preexisting conditions, will remain in place.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;In a word, they have not shown that any kind of government action or conduct has caused or will cause the injury they attribute to the law,&#8221; the decision reads.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thursday\u2019s decision is likely the bookend to a decade of political struggle over the Affordable Care Act. The case is the third direct attack on Obamacare the Supreme Court has encountered, and the third time it\u2019s refused to strike the ACA down. Changes to the Court\u2019s personnel were not enough to bolster the red state lawsuit. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett both joined the majority opinion tossing the case on standing grounds, despite warnings from Democrats that their confirmations would imperil insurance coverage for millions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The last major attack on the mandate came in 2012, when a coalition of businesses argued Congress had no power to compel people to buy health insurance. The Supreme Court disagreed in a five-to-four ruling, saying the mandate was authorized by Congress\u2019 taxing power. Thursday\u2019s<\/span><span> case <\/span><span>was born of the 2017 Republican tax law signed by former president Donald Trump. The Tax Cut and Jobs Act &#8220;zeroed out&#8221; the mandate to buy health insurance by setting the financial penalty for noncompliance at zero dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A coalition <\/span><span>of red states led by Texas, plus a few individuals, brought a new legal challenge to the ACA based on that change. The plaintiffs argued that the mandate cannot be sustained as a tax if it isn\u2019t raising revenue for the government and ought to be struck down. Because the mandate is central to the law\u2019s design, they argued the entire statute should be invalidated as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Chief Justice John Roberts said the case was something of a set up during oral arguments in November. Unable to muster the votes for outright repeal of the ACA, he said the 2017 Republican Congress gutted the mandate in hopes the Court would scuttle it along with the rest of the health care law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I think, frankly, that they wanted the Court to do that,&#8221; Roberts said. &#8220;But that&#8217;s not our job.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The lawsuit met success in the lower courts. A federal trial judge ruled for the red state plaintiffs and declared the entire law unconstitutional in 2018. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision in part. The appeals court agreed that the mandate is unconstitutional because of the tax law, but it directed the district court to reconsider whether the entire statute should be struck down as a result.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a highly unusual move, the Trump Justice Department refused to defend the ACA in court. The Justice Department defends federal laws in court in virtually every instance, unless no reasonable argument can be made on its behalf. The department reversed course again after President Joe Biden took office and submitted a supplementary letter asking the justices to uphold the ACA in full. Flipping sides is a disfavored practice in the Supreme Court, but the move was expected because Biden promised to protect and expand Obamacare as a candidate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>California led a coalition of blue states who defended the ACA in court after the Justice Department declined to do so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>About 12 million Americans are insured through the ACA\u2019s Medicaid expansion program. Another eight million use tax credits to buy health insurance through Obamacare exchanges. Biden favors adding a public option that would let enrollees buy a government-run health care plan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The case is No. 20-1019 <\/span><i><span>Texas<\/span><\/i><span> v. <\/span><i><span>California<\/span><\/i><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Courts 7-2 decision likely an end to battle over health care law  Getty Images  Kevin Daley \u2022 June 17, 2021 10:50 am &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2280566,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Obamacare-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare in Full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-566669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Obamacare-736x491-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare in Full","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}