Actually?….
The individual mandate is no more……
The Appeals court has sent the case back to the Texas Federal Judge that said the countries health insurance system is no good…
The two judges ruling against the Obamacare healthcare system where Republican appointed …
For the judges to invalidate the ENTIRE healthcare system would be remarkable ….
They CAN rule against separate parts of the law…
Such actions would disenfranchise MILLIONS of Americans of their healthcare insurance coverage which would pose YUGE public political problem….
Best guess is that things remain in place until we know who the President and his Congress will be on January 21st , 2021…
As for sending back to the lower court the question of whether the rest of the law remains intact, King wrote: “Answering that question should be easy, since Congress removed the coverage requirement’s only enforcement mechanism but left the rest of the Affordable Care Act in place.” And sending it back to the Texas court “will unnecessarily prolong this litigation and the concomitant uncertainty over the future of the healthcare sector.”
If the appellate decision is upheld, the most popular element that would come unglued is insurance protections for Americans with preexisting medical conditions — the issue that helped House Democrats regain the majority in last year’s elections.
Other elements of the law that are at potential risk include insurance subsidies for most people buying health plans through ACA marketplaces, designed for individuals and families that cannot get affordable health benefits through a job; the expansion of Medicaid in three dozen states; the ability of young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance policies until they turn 26; and no-charge preventive care for older Americans on Medicare.
The law also is woven more subtly into many other aspects of the health-care system, from payment formulas for hospitals and doctors to experiments intended to nudge health-care from a system that pays for the quantity of medical services to one based on the value of care patients receive.
One health agency created under the law is providing the underpinning for some of the Trump administration’s proposals to lower drug prices….