Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-2015
Abstract
As an essential part of its effort to achieve near universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends sizable tax credits to most people who buy insurance on the newly established health care exchanges. Yet several lawsuits have been filed challenging the availability of those tax credits in the thirty-four states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The lawsuits are premised on a strained interpretation of the ACA that, if accepted, would make a hash of other provisions of the statute and undermine its effort to extend coverage to the uninsured. The courts should reject this latest effort to dismantle a critical feature of the ACA.
Recommended Citation
Bagley, Nicholas. "Three Words and the Future of the Affordable Care Act." J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 40, no. 3 (2015): 589-97.
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