U.S. Supreme Court Affirms Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (a Third Time)
By EsqSocial Corporation 23/06/21
Soon after the Affordable Care Act (“ACA” or the “Act”) was passed in 2010, its critics initiated the first major legal effort to strike down the entire law as unconstitutional. That case, National Federation of Independent Business v. Sibelius, led to a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court decision authored by Chief Justice John Roberts which held that the Act’s “individual mandate” (a monetary penalty directed at certain individuals who failed to obtain health coverage) was constitutional – but limited the...
By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC