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The Affordable Care Act was subject to a number of lawsuits challenging some of its provisions, such as the individual mandate and the requirement to cover contraception. Four of these lawsuits were heard by the United States Supreme Court , resulting in changes to the law and how it was enforced. In addition, since the law's enactment, lawmakers in Congress have introduced and considered legislation to modify or repeal parts or all of the Affordable Care Act. Finally, between and , voters in eight states considered ballot measures related to the law.
This section summarizes the lawsuits, legislation, and state ballot measures that attempted to change, repeal, or impact enforcement of parts of the law. Pursuant to the U. Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v.
Hobby Lobby , religious organizations and closely-held for-profit companies became eligible for an exemption from the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate. Under the exemption, organizations could notify the government of their religious objections to contraception, which would then make an arrangement with the insurance company to provide contraceptive coverage to the employees.
However, 43 different Catholic organizations filed 12 lawsuits challenging this accommodation, arguing that they would still be complicit in providing contraception to their employees. Read more. The Affordable Care Act states an individual is eligible for a tax credit if he or she enrolls in an insurance plan through "an Exchange established by the State.
At issue in King v. Burwell was whether the ACA permitted the IRS to interpret the law in this way and grant tax credits to individuals who purchased their health insurance from the federal health insurance exchange in addition to the state exchanges. If tax subsidies were not available for insurance plans purchased through federal exchange, an estimated 6.
This federal lawsuit was filed in Florida , with 26 states, two individuals, and an independent organization named as plaintiffs. The lawsuit challenged the Affordable Care Act on the grounds that the individual health insurance mandate exceeded Congress ' authority to regulate interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause of Article I and did not fall within its power to tax.
The complaint further alleged that the Act violated the Tenth Amendment by compelling states to follow federal regulations—under the ACA, states would have lost federal Medicaid funding had they not expanded their Medicaid programs. The Affordable Care Act had mandated that insurance plans must cover certain essential benefits—which HHS later interpreted to include contraceptive coverage.
Employers that didn't provide this benefit in their health insurance plan would face hefty fines. Two family-owned companies—Hobby Lobby and Conestoga Wood Specialty—challenged the contraception mandate in court. They sought exemptions from coverage of four different contraceptives—two emergency morning after pills and two intrauterine devices IUDs —on the basis that those contraceptives were forms of abortion according to their religious beliefs.
On July 30, , the House voted to in favor of a resolution to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration. The lawsuit challenged the administration's delay of the ACA's employer mandate and its payment of subsidies to insurers for providing a reduced cost burden to low-income consumers under the law. Boehner claimed the executive branch "changed the healthcare law without a vote of Congress" by delaying the employer mandate and violated Article I of the Constitution by using unappropriated funds to make payments to insurers.
Sixteen of these measures were ultimately enacted and signed into law by former President Barack Obama D ; these bills made bipartisan changes such as delaying the 40 percent excise tax on high-cost health plans and amending definitions. Four of the bills that passed the House would have repealed the law in its entirety had they been enacted; only one made it to President Obama's desk, HR The passage of HR , the Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Act , marked the first time a measure to repeal major portions of the law had passed both the House and the U.
President Obama vetoed the bill. Both bills were reconciliation bills that proposed modifying the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the ACA. Ultimately, the Senate did not pass the bill. Trump offered his full support for the legislation. The bill was a reconciliation bill, meaning it would have impacted the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the ACA, and did not contain a provision to repeal the law in its entirety.
It proposed repealing the tax penalties on individuals for not maintaining health coverage and on employers for not offering coverage. The ACA's income-based tax credits for purchasing insurance would have ended, as would have the enhanced federal funding for states that expanded Medicaid. The bill contained its own system of tax credits, based on age rather than income, and a penalty in the form of increased premiums for individuals who did not maintain continuous coverage.
After two canceled votes in March, the House reintroduced the measure on April 6, On April 13, House Republicans added a new amendment to the American Health Care Act in an attempt to unite the party behind the bill, allowing states to opt out of some of the bill's provisions. These two amendments garnered enough votes from moderate and conservative Republicans to pass the bill on May 4, , by a vote of On June 22, , the U.
The bill was a reconciliation bill that proposed modifying the budgetary and fiscal provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ACA , also known as Obamacare. For detailed information on the BCRA, click here. During the last week of July, the Senate voted on three major proposals to repeal and replace the ACA.
A procedural vote on the BCRA was rejected by a vote of A proposal to repeal the ACA and delay the effective date for two years to provide time for a replacement bill failed by a vote of The final major amendment—the "skinny bill"—was rejected by a vote.
It contained the provisions to repeal the requirements for individuals to enroll in health insurance and for employers to offer it, among other provisions. On January 6, , the U. House of Representatives voted in favor of a bill to repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act , also known as "Obamacare," and to end federal funding for Planned Parenthood over the next year. President Barack Obama vetoed the measure on January 8, stating that the legislation would have caused harm "to the health and financial security of millions of Americans.
The bill, HR , was widely expected to be vetoed by the president and, according to The Hill , was viewed as more of a symbolic move for the Republican Party to show voters "how they would govern if they win back the White House in November.
The bill would have ended the expansion of Medicaid and federal subsidies for people buying health insurance on the new exchanges. These changes would have taken place in , and Republicans say they would have used the two years in between to implement a replacement of the law. Beginning early on during congressional debate over the Affordable Care Act, 10 legislative referrals and citizen initiatives appeared seeking to stop implementation of the act in eight states. Most of these ballot measures proposed an amendment to the state's constitution declaring that citizens of the respective state could not be compelled to purchase health insurance or be fined for not doing so.
Some measures, however, instead chose to focus on prohibiting the state's government from establishing a health insurance exchange. This particular tactic was used so as to gain additional legal leverage before the courts by making available the argument that the federal law violated state constitutions.
Another aspect of this strategy was to demonstrate public disapproval of the bill by having such constitutional changes be decided by voters rather than state legislators. This effort was not universally successful, however, because voters in some states refused to approve these constitutional amendments. The following is a list of states that saw such constitutional amendments on their ballots since Successful measures are indicated with a a. The link below is to the most recent stories in a Google news search for the terms Affordable Care Act.
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Click here to contact us for media inquiries, and please donate here to support our continued expansion. Share this page Follow Ballotpedia. What's on your ballot? Jump to: navigation , search. The Affordable Care Act passed the Senate along party lines on December 24, , and passed the House on March 21, Thirty-four House Democrats voted in opposition. As of November , a total of 36 states and Washington, D.
President Donald Trump 's main healthcare policy initiative has been working to fulfill his campaign promise to repeal and replace the ACA.
He expressed support for the House and Senate bills that proposed modifying parts of the ACA, but as of November , Congress had not passed a bill.
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Changes have been made to the law that addressed some of the objections raised by opponents, while still keeping the Marketplace open for users. Starting with the tax year , the individual mandate penalty was reduced to zero dollars, essentially removing the requirement that many Republicans had opposed. By , the number of Americans covered under the ACA had dropped to By , there were In March , House Democrats unveiled legislation to shore up the act and expand coverage, while the Trump administration revealed it would seek to repeal the entirety of the ACA.
In a letter to a federal appeals court, the Justice Department said it agreed with a federal judge in Texas, who declared the healthcare law unconstitutional and added that it will support the judgment on appeal. President Joseph Biden, who helped Obama pass the law, is widely expected to make efforts to strengthen the ACA during his term and veto further legislative attempts to overturn it. In addition to setting up a new special enrollment period, the executive order President Biden signed on Jan.
It extended healthcare coverage to millions of previously uninsured Americans. The act required that all Americans purchase or otherwise obtain health insurance and prohibited insurance companies from denying coverage or charging more due to pre-existing conditions. The ACA also created the Health Insurance Marketplace , through which eligible people may find and buy health insurance policies. All ACA-compliant health insurance plans, including those sold through the marketplace, must cover a number of essential health benefits.
The Biden administration is expected to extend the ACA over the next few years. Commonwealth Fund. House of Representatives. Accessed July 29, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. See If You'll Owe a Fee. Supreme Court. Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al.
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