Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 30. January 2013 19:06
In a January 24, 2013 news release, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) reported that a new poll shows that more Americans support, rather than oppose, Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). According to the poll, 52 percent of Americans believe that their states should expand Medicaid; 42 percent do not believe their states should expand [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 24. July 2012 23:02
On June 28th, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Court’s decision primarily addressed the constitutionality of two key ACA provisions; the so-called “individual mandate” and the requirement that states dramatically expand their Medicaid programs. The Court ruled [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 29. June 2012 19:24
On June 28, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) under a 5-4 decision written by the Chief Justice. The Court's decision has no impact on ACA provisions related to the Exchanges. The decision puts certain limits on the amount of the penalties that may be imposed on states that do not implement the Medicaid expansion. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 5. March 2011 02:11
The New York Times reports that on March 3, 2011 a Florida federal district court judge ordered a stay of his previous ruling that the health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional. Prior to the Florida ruling, two other federal judges upheld ACA’s constitutionality and another federal judge found it to be partially unconstitutional. [More]
Author: Patsy Crawford | Posted: 8. February 2011 19:39
A fourth federal district court has ruled on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). On January 31, 2011 a Federal District Court Judge in Pensacola, Florida ruled that ACA violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution in that the Act requires every American to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty (called the “individual mandate”). Although the Judge upheld the constitutionality of the Medicaid expansion included in the Act, he ruled that the individual mandate is so intricately bound with the purpose of ACA that the invalidation of the individual mandate invalidates ACA in its entirety. [More]
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