Two Republican state attorneys general on Monday urged a federal appeals court to uphold the Obamacare federal healthcare law, saying that striking it down would be disruptive for patients, doctors, insurers and employers.
A U.S. District Court in California dismissed a lawsuit challenging CalSavers Retirement Savings program.
Homeless patients made about 100,000 visits to California hospitals in 2017, marking a 28% rise from two years earlier, according to the most recent state discharge data.
In yet another unexpected twist in litigation over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Department of Justice (DOJ) took the new and stunning position that the entire ACA should be invalidated because the individual mandate penalty has been set to $0. The DOJ took this position not in a brief or other filing with any sort of explanation but in a two-sentence letter to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on March 25, 2019, the day its opening brief was due.
There’s no question the health insurance industry is evolving. New technology is empowering employees’ health decisions. There’s big data. Online enrollment. More choice. And, of course, there’s still the Affordable Care Act.
The Trump administration broadened its attack on the Affordable Care Act on Monday, telling a federal appeals court that it now believed the entire law should be invalidated.