Ruling Striking Down Obamacare Won’t Affect Coverage, Yet
- Enrollment for 2019 plans to continue as decision faces review
- Shares of hospital and insurer stocks fall in early trading
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If you like your Obamacare health plan, you can keep it -- at least for now.
A federal judge’s ruling that the Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional was a Friday-evening bombshell and a first-round victory for opponents of the law. But it will need to survive review by higher courts to have any effect on the program that’s credited with expanding health insurance to about 19 million people in the U.S.