Recently, ACCA has received some questions regarding healthcare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
As you are all aware, back on December 14, a federal judge in Texas struck down the ACA, holding that the individual mandate is unconstitutional, and, without it, the entire law must fail. The judge’s action happened two days before the close of the open enrollment period on the Healthcare Marketplace Exchanges, and his ruling was premised in the elimination of the tax penalty in 2019.
When it was originally enacted, the ACA was sold as insurance reform which guaranteed issue, community rating, and elimination of pre-existing conditions. It withstood ...