Health Care Laws and Regulatory Issues

Healthcare Laws and Regulatory Issues
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This paper discusses the Texas v. Azar/U.S. lawsuit presented by Republican state officials challenging the constitutionality of ACA. Congress passed Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 to raise the number of Americans with health insurance, reduce healthcare expenses and offer critical protections to healthcare consumers. Texas and other nineteen states and two individual plaintiffs filed an objection in Texas District court claiming that the law’s individual mandate requirement is unconstitutional. In addition, the plaintiffs claimed that the remaining part of the law is inseverable from that provision and thus must likewise fall (Musumeci, 2019). The court established the individual mandate as unconstitutional after the penalty was set at $0 by Congress. But rather than deciding what this implies for the remaining ACA provisions, the court remanded the case for more examination on the severability questions. The Supreme Court in June 2021 held that the appellants challenging ACA constitutionality lacked the standing to do so. The suit dismissal is a massive victory for persons who gained from the ACA enlargement of healthcare access and the protections it gives to healthcare consumers (Musumeci, 2019).
Define a law involved with the chosen regulatory issue from both a state level
Congress 2017 revised the ACA to remove the financial penalization the ACA enforced on persons without insurance. By permitting the rest of the ACA provisions when it decreased the shared responsibility payment to $0 in 2017, Congress decidedly created the remaining part of the law to operate without an enforceable mandate (Musumeci, 2019). In addition, since the amendment was made in...