The challenge from critics reached the Highest Court, after it advanced in a Texas court, with the intention of dismantling the health insurance system that protects the most vulnerable families, including a high percentage of Latinos
The Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, survived a third attempt by critics against the Supreme Court to cancel their benefits or part of them.
Seven judges ruled that in this case the plaintiffs had not suffered “direct damage” that they accused and gave them the right to sue.
“To have standing, a plaintiff must ‘allege a personal injury that can be attributed to the allegedly illegal conduct of the accused and that is likely to be repaired by the requested redress,’” the opinion reads. “No plaintiff has shown that such harm is ‘fairly traceable’ to the ‘allegedly illegal conduct’ challenged here.”
That is, the ministers rejected the challenge of the law on by Texas and other GOP-ruled states that objected that they were not required to pay anything under the mandate provision.
The opinion was written by the judge Stephen Breyer that answers three questions related to costs and their impact on individuals and state governments, due to the access to basic security that assigned persons obtain. An estimated people receive the benefit, as they do not have any other type of insurance.
The program created in 2010, which benefits the poorest populations, including communities of color, such as Latinos, has faced other challenges in 2012 Y 2015, but they were also scrapped.
This year had the fear that the new judge Amy Coney Barrett joined the opponents of the program, but was the judge Samuel Alito who wrote the position in against, which was endorsed by Neil Gosuch, appointed by the former president Donald Trump .
Former President Trump and his allies in the Cong Reso intensified criticism of the health insurance program, but failed to dismantle it.
Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto (Nevada) celebrated the decision on the legal battle between the states of California and Texas .
“All Americans deserve access to affordable health care,” he said. “I am glad that the Supreme Court has denied this politically motivated attempt to endanger the care of millions of Americans… The Affordable Care Act has been a lifeline for our state during the pandemic, allowing thousands of people to without insurance have access to care. ”
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