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Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has provided meaningful coverage for millions of Americans, reformed the national health insurance and health care delivery infrastructure, and assured basic public health services through core funding. Enforcing the ACA has also entailed a multitude of political and legal challenges including (1) dozens of failed [...]

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President Donald Trump’s recent nomination of Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh as Associate Justice to the U.S. Supreme Court from a list of potential candidates has ignited immediate support and criticism from conservatives and liberals respectively. An undergrad and law alum at Yale University, Judge Kavanaugh clerked for the departing Justice Anthony Kennedy, practiced law privately [...]

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The Trump administration said Thursday that it will not defend portions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a challenge by 20 states. The administration filed a response Thursday to the complaint along with a letter from Attorney General Jeff Sessions agreeing with the plaintiffs and calling for a declaratory judgment by the court to [...]

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A coalition of 20 states, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton , filed a lawsuit in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Monday alleging that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is...

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JURIST Guest Columnist James G. Hodge, Jr. of The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, discusses forthcoming "repeal and replace" strategies regarding the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and how replacements for its provisions must focus on assuring...

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US President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would have repealed his signature health care law. The president explained that the proposed bill "would not only repeal parts of the Affordable Care...

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