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'Obamacare' likely to survive, high court arguments indicate
By MARK SHERMAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — A
more conservative Su-
preme Court appears un-
willing to do what Repub-
licans have long desired:
kill off the Affordable Care
Act, including its key pro-
tections for pre-existing
health conditions and sub-
sidized insurance premiums
that affect tens of millions
of Americans.
Meeting remotely a week
after the election and in
the midst of a pandemic
that has closed their majes-
tic courtroom, the justices
on Tuesday took on the lat-
est Republican challenge
to the Obama-era health
care law, with three ap-
pointees of President Don-
ald Trump, an avowed foe
of the law, among them.
But at least one of those
Trump appointees, Justice
Brett Kavanaugh, seemed
likely to vote to leave the
bulk of the law intact, A demonstrator holds a sign in front of the U.S. Supreme Court as arguments are heard about the Affordable Care Act, Tuesday,
even if he were to find the Nov. 10, 2020, in Washington.
law's now-toothless man- Associated Press
date that everyone obtain
health insurance to be un- date provision and leave ions preserving the law, in its entirety. That presum- cial penalty attached to
constitutional. the rest of the act in place,” stated similar views, and ably would form a majority it. Congress zeroed out the
“It does seem fairly clear Kavanaugh said. the court’s three liberal by joining a decision to cut penalty in 2017, but left the
that the proper remedy Chief Justice John Roberts, justices are almost certain away only the mandate, rest of the law untouched.
would be to sever the man- who wrote two earlier opin- to vote to uphold the law which now has no finan- Continued on next page