Supreme Court Dismisses Challenge to the Affordable Care Act

Yesterday, the Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act. That decision will leave the law that has been in place since 2010 intact and save health care coverage for millions of Americans. The challenge was presented by Republican-led states and the former Trump administration which urged them to block the entire law. Currently, 31 million Americans have health coverage through the Affordable Care Act which includes 11.3 million people who are enrolled in Obamacare exchanges as of February and 14.8 million newly-eligible low income people enrolled in the medicaid expansion as of December. An additional 1.2 million Americans had also selected policies for 2021 during a special enrollment period which Biden launched in mid-March and runs until mid-August.