Newsdeck: Trump Asks Courts to Erase Obamacare in Risky 2020 Election Move By Bloomberg
The position is a change for the Justice Department after it argued last year that large parts of the 2010 law — but not all of it — should be struck in the case Texas v. U.S., which is pending before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. A trial court judge sided with Texas and voided the law in a December ruling. The Justice Department now says that the entire law, enacted under President Barack Obama, should be thrown out.
The debate over the ACA, which Republicans tried unsuccessfully to repeal in 2017, caused heartburn for the party in the 2018 midterm elections and was a focal point for Democrats on the campaign trail. Yet it’s an issue Democrats have struggled to stay focused on after taking the House in January and effectively neutering the Republican threat to repeal the 2010 law. The GOP had tried to undermine and undo the Affordable Care Act almost from the moment Obama signed it. Trump’s vow to repeal the law was a central promise of his 2016 campaign.“If the Trump Administration gets its way, millions of people will be stripped of their health insurance.
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