Even Conservatives Want The Courts To Ignore Trump On Obamacare
They hate the Affordable Care Act, but they also want no part of this latest lawsuit.
Conservatives are begging the federal courts to uphold Obamacare.
President Donald Trump is rooting for the case to succeed,
even though an estimated 20 million people would lose insurance and,
as usual, he doesn’t have a replacement plan.
At his behest, the Justice Department last week formally informed the 5th Circuit that it, too, wants the whole law to come off the books.
conservatives think that would be nuts ― either because
they genuinely think the merits of the case are so weak or
because they fear the political effects for Republicans could be devastating, or both.
The case is called Texas vs. Azar,
The underlying premise of Texas vs. Azar is that the Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate,”
which imposed a financial penalty on people who didn’t obtain insurance,
has become uncons utional because the 2017 tax cut reduced the penalty to zero.
Because Congress in 2010 thought the mandate was an essential piece of the Affordable Care Act,
the lawsuit says, the courts must throw out the entire law.
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