US Supreme Court declines to strike down Affordable Care Act

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) or previously known as ObamaCare provides medical provisions to citizens of the country and represents the U.S healthcare system’s most vital regulatory expansion of coverage since 1965. A plea to shut down the Affordable Care Act was taken to the U.S Supreme court but only Thursday, 17th June 2021, the Supreme Court declined to strike down the act. The Republican party has time and again tried to abolish the ACA ever since it was passed in 2010. This marks the third time that the Supreme Court has ruled on the constitutionality of the individual mandate. Today more than 20 million Americans depend on the ACA for health insurance.

In addition to that, the US Supreme Court also refused to stick down the bill’s mandate for buying health insurance as the 7-2 GOP plaintiffs who took the case to court did not have the standing to sue. The healthcare law remains inviolate despite the Democrats’ worries that the conservative-leaning court would overthrow it.

The Trump presidency sued in an attempt to abolish the ACA, asserting that the law’s individual mandate which required Americans to buy health insurance should be opposed as unconstitutional subsequent to Congress annulling it by abolishing the tax penalty for people who don’t buy insurance in 2017.

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