States Ask for High Court Review of Obamacare Ruling(Radio)

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The U.S. Supreme Court is once again being asked to decide the fate of Obamacare. A coalition of 20 states and the District of Columbia has asked the court to review the Dec. 18 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that put the fate of the nation’s health-care law in limbo. The appeals court ruled that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate to buy insurance is unconstitutional because Congress in 2017 dropped the penalty to zero for failing to have coverage. The court said in a 2-1 decision that the mandate “can no longer be read as a tax, and there is no other constitutional provision that justifies this exercise of congressional power.” Bloomberg Law's Lydia Wheeler discusses developments with Nancy Lyons in the Bloomberg 99.1 Washington newsroom.

Jan 06, 2020