Warriorspouse:
The provisions of the Affordable Care Act have never been before the Supreme Court for legal review or decision.
The current administration is on a trajectory to undermine the Affordable Care Act. The withdrawl of the ACA’s individual mandate was a first act toward dismamtaling of the ACA.
The Affordable Care Act is more than the expansion of MediCaide and the availability of medical insurance to those not provide with employer-based coverage. The Affordable Care Act outlines basic legal requirements that medical insurance plans must provide. This includes routine and preventive care (colonoscopies, as would be of keen interest to this forum), maternity and delivery care, coverage for pre-existing conditions, and elimination of a life-time financial cap. The legal provisions of the ACA provide essential protections for employer-provided medical insurance plans - as well as the individual marketplace available plans. No one is unaffected by the Affordable Care Act.
Despite what you may think, several states have filed legal challenges in federal court this week challenging the constitutionality of the ACA’s provision for protection of pre-existing conditions. The first federal filing will be decided by a federal judge in Texas who was appointed during the Bush administration and has a background of strong conservative orientation to her decisions and rulings. The point being: Protection for pre-existing conditions is under siege. This is not “fake news.”
Anyone with any relevant health history should be rightly concerned and should be tracking developments through reputable news sources carefully in the days ahead.
Karen