{"id":69974,"date":"2021-06-20T13:16:23","date_gmt":"2021-06-20T17:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69974"},"modified":"2021-06-20T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-06-20T17:16:23","slug":"supreme-court-betrays-the-american-people-regarding-obamacare-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=69974","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Betrays the American People Regarding Obamacare—AGAIN!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obamacare survives after Supreme Court
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Tucker Higgins & Kevin Breuninger
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  • The Supreme Court ruled against Texas and other Republican-led states seeking to strike down the Affordable Care Act in its latest test before the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/li>\n
  • The top court voted 7-2 to reverse an appeals court ruling that had struck down the law\u2019s individual mandate provision.<\/li>\n
  • Two of former President Donald Trump\u2019s court picks, Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, joined the majority in rejecting the Republican effort.<\/li>\n
  • President Joe Biden praised the ruling as a major victory and vowed to expand Obamacare.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    Demonstrators in support of U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s health-care law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), hold up \u2018ACA is Here to Stay\u2019 signs after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to save Obamacare tax subsidies outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. June 25, 2015.<\/div>\n
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    The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 on Thursday against Texas and other Republican-led states seeking to strike down Obamacare in the law\u2019s latest test before the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

    The court reversed an appeals court ruling that had struck down the law\u2019s individual mandate provision. Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joined Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s opinion, as did Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.<\/p>\n

    Breyer said Texas and the other states that challenged the law failed to show they were harmed by it.<\/p>\n

    \u201cNeither the individual nor the state plaintiffs have shown that the injury they will suffer or have suffered is \u2018fairly traceable\u2019 to the \u2018allegedly unlawful conduct\u2019 of which they complain,\u201d Breyer wrote.<\/p>\n

    The decision marks the third time that Obamacare, officially known as the Affordable Care Act, has survived a challenge before the Supreme Court since former President Barack Obama signed the landmark legislation into law in 2010.<\/p>\n

    Defenders of Obamacare worried that the Supreme Court \u2013 with its 6-3 majority of Republican-appointed justices \u2013 would scrap the law, a crucial element of the nation\u2019s health-care system.<\/p>\n

    President\u00a0Joe Biden<\/a>, who served as Obama\u2019s vice president when the law was signed, praised Thursday\u2019s ruling as a \u201cmajor victory\u201d for millions of Americans who were at risk of losing their health care in the midst of the Covid pandemic if the law was overturned.<\/p>\n

    Biden also vowed to expand Obamacare, a central promise of his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

    \u201cAfter more than a decade of attacks on the Affordable Care Act through the Congress and the courts, today\u2019s decision \u2013 the third major challenge to the law that the U.S. Supreme Court has rejected \u2013 it is time move forward and keep building on this landmark law,\u201d Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\n

    \u201cToday\u2019s decision affirms that the Affordable Care Act is stronger than ever, delivers for the American people, and gets us closer to fulfilling our moral obligation to ensure that, here in America, health care is a right and not a privilege,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

    Obama said the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling makes clear that the law will endure, and the principle of universal health-care coverage has been established.<\/p>\n