What to Know About the New Threat to the ACA

Taken from materials from FamiliesUSA:

On July 9, 2019, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans will hear oral arguments in the case Texas v. United States. This case threatens access to health care and financial security for millions of Americans with 153,000 people estimated to lose coverage in Wisconsin. 

The case before the Fifth Circuit is based on an appeal of the dangerous ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Reed O’Connor in December 2018 that would strike down the entire Affordable Care Act (ACA), including provisions that:

• Protect people with preexisting conditions.
• Improve benefits for people who buy individual coverage and those who receive coverage from their employers.
• Reduce Medicare enrollees’ drug costs.
• Improve the long-term financial stability of Medicare.
• Expand Medicaid.
• Make improvements in hospital and nursing home care.

This case is an extremely overt form of health care sabotage. Millions of Americans rely on the ACA and if it hadn’t been for the ACA, many Americans would not be alive today.

While the case is under appeal, it is important that consumers and their advocates know that the ACA is still law of the land!

To learn more, link here. And stay tuned for more updates on this case.