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TRENDING TOPICS, MOST CREDIBLE STORIES | | #1 in U.S. News • 84 articles How will the latest Supreme Court ruling affect Obamacare? |  | |
Top from last 48 hrs Obamacare is here to stay. Brace for new health care battles. New York Times (Moderate Left) • Factual Grade 88% • 4 min read
The most recent lawsuit was a holdover from an earlier era of Obamacare politics. Filed by state attorneys general in 2018, it sought to eliminate Obamacare entirely and has taken years to wend its way through the courts. The Supreme Court did not dive into the merits of the case, but instead found that the plaintiffs did not experience any harms that would give them standing to challenge the law. ... The Affordable Care Act still has holes that have proved challenging to fix. The 2012 Supreme Court decision that upheld the individual mandate also made the law's Medicaid expansion provisions optional. Twelve states do not participate in that program, leaving millions of low-income Americans without coverage. ... Obamacare enjoys higher-than-ever public support, with most Americans now favoring the law. The waning repeal effort has given Democrats their first chance in a decade to press forward on a new campaign: moving the country toward a system of universal health coverage. - Top from different political viewpoint
For the third time, the Roberts court rescues Obamacare. Reason (Moderate Right) • Factual Grade 78% • 5 min read - Top long-read
What Obamacare achieved — and didn't. Vox (Left) • Factual Grade 82% • 5 min read
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