Tag Archives: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
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SCOTUS Opinion: Justices Rejects Latest Challenge To Obamacare Under Lack Of Standing
Originally, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required people to obtain minimum essential healthcare coverage, and instituted a monetary penalty for failure to do so. In a prior challenge to the Act, the Court ruled that the penalty was constitutional as a form of tax. Congress subsequently reduced the penalty to $0. Several states and two individuals sued again, ... Read More
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SCOTUS Opinion: Court Upholds Birth Control Exclusion for Religious Organizations Under ACA
While the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act required employers to provide coverage for contraceptives, the Government issued rules exempting religious employers from that mandate. After subsequent rulings by the Supreme Court on claims that the rules violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment, the Government issued new rules expanding the exemption ... Read More
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SCOTUS Opinion: Congress Ordered to Pay Unprofitable Insurers Under the Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contained a program under which, each year, profitable insurance plans “shall” pay an amount into the government, and the government “shall” make payments to unprofitable plans, thus limiting risk for those insurers who participated in the online exchanges. The Act did not appropriate any funds for the yearly payments. Over several years, the ... Read More