WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court docket has dismissed a problem to the Obama period well being care regulation, preserving insurance coverage protection for hundreds of thousands of People.
The justices left the whole regulation intact Thursday in ruling that Texas, different Republican-led states and two people had no proper to deliver their lawsuit in federal court docket.
The regulation’s main provisions embody protections for folks with pre-existing well being circumstances, a variety of no-cost preventive providers and the growth of the Medicaid program that insures lower-income folks, together with those that work in jobs that don’t pay a lot or present medical insurance.
Additionally left in place is the regulation’s now-toothless requirement that folks have medical insurance or pay a penalty. Congress rendered that provision irrelevant in 2017 when it diminished the penalty to zero.
