BGOV OnPoint: Supreme Court Hears Case Key to Obamacare’s Future

The fate of the Affordable Care Act is once again in the hands of the Supreme Court, which today hears oral arguments in a case over the law’s constitutionality.

The latest action in the case comes as Covid-19 is increasing in most states and during the ACA’s open enrollment period for 2021.

The Supreme Court case centers around the law’s individual mandate that initially required all consumers to have health insurance or pay a penalty, which the Supreme Court in 2012 upheld as within Congress’ taxing authority.

Congress effectively repealed the penalty in 2017, however, and a group of states, ...