A guide to the Supreme Court's Affordable Care Act decision
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Focus on health reform
- Author(s):
- Musumeci, MaryBeth, author Musumeci, MaryBeth, author
- Contributor(s):
- Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, issuing body. Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, issuing body.
- Publication:
- Menlo Park, CA : Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, July 2012
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Health Care Reform -- legislation & jurisprudence Insurance Coverage -- legislation & jurisprudence Supreme Court Decisions United States United States.
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- On the last day of the 2011-2012 Term, the United States Supreme Court issued its long-anticipated opinion about the Affordable Care Act (ACA). In a case known as National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the Court agreed to consider the constitutionality of two major provisions of the ACA: the individual mandate and the Medicaid expansion. A majority of the Court upheld the individual mandate. And, while the Court found the Medicaid expansion unconstitutionally coercive of states, because states did not have adequate notice to voluntarily consent and the Secretary could potentially withhold all of a state's existing federal Medicaid funds for non-compliance, a majority of the Court found that this issue was appropriately remedied by circumscribing the Secretary's enforcement authority, thus leaving the Medicaid expansion intact in the ACA. This policy brief describes the Court's decision and looks ahead to the implementation of health reform now that the constitutionality of the ACA has been resolved.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (9 pages, 1 unnumbered page))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101611476 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101611476