Question

Provide an example of a historic health law that was passed at the federal or state level that is not currently funded for enforcement.

Answer 1

Ans) A federal district judge in Texas issued an opinion that the entire ACA is invalid because Congress reduced to $0 the tax penalty tied to its individual mandate, .

• In early 2018 the challenge was initiated by 20 state AGs; in April the ACA law was defended by 16 other states and D.C.
• The ACA continues to be active law, pending the appeals process, the White House said.

• The legal fight is widely expected to reach the Supreme Court.

A federal District Court judge in Fort Worth Texas on Dec. 14, 2018 “handed Republican state attorneys general a victory in their challenge, "Texas vs Azar," to the Affordable Care Act, ruling that the entire law was rendered invalid by Congress zeroing out the penalty tied to its individual mandate.” The plaintiffs' case, filed in February, centered on what they described as "the inseverability of the ACA's individual mandate—which the Supreme Court upheld in 2012 as a tax—from the rest of the law. Since the mandate's tax penalty for noncompliance will drop to $0 on January 1, 2019, the mandate must be unconstitutional and the entire ACA must be invalid, too, the plaintiffs argued successfully at the District Court level. While the Department of Justice (DOJ) continues to represent the defendants in this lawsuit, it has also sided against key provisions of the law, agreeing that the individual mandate was rendered unconstitutional but arguing that only a handful of the ACA's other provisions are inseparable from the mandate.”