Taking Aim at the ACA
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What to Know: TPPF attorneys were in a Fort Worth courtroom this week arguing that the Affordable Care is unconstitutional.
“Judge Reed O’Connor did not immediately rule on the latest push by Republicans to end the Affordable Care Act — the law commonly known as Obamacare that insures 20 million Americans,” NBC DFW reports. “Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading an effort to scrap the law in the wake of Congress repealing the individual mandate, which requires most Americans to buy insurance or risk a tax penalty. It’s the most high-profile lawsuit against the federal health care law since President Donald Trump took office.”
The TPPF Take: By setting the individual mandate penalty at zero in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress removed the ACA’s only constitutional justification.
“Without the individual mandate penalty, the whole thing falls apart,” says TPPF’s Rob Henneke. “And if the court agrees with us, the ACA will be left as no more than a combination of onerous regulations and burdensome taxes — all of which should be repealed.”
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