The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on December 18, 2019 struck down the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate, affirming a lower court’s ruling in part. Unlike the lower court, the Fifth Circuit did not decide on the constitutionality of the rest of the health care law, leaving it to that same lower-court judge to determine whether there are parts of the ACA that might pass legal muster. A breakdown from the Commonwealth Fund describes what it means if the ACA disappears.
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