Blackletter

On November 10th, there is a crazy important case that involves a challenge to the Affordable Care Act, or the ACA. The ACA is the healthcare law that some people call Obamacare. And what's being challenged specifically in this case is something called minimum essential coverage provision. And sometimes you heard it called the individual mandate. What this minimum essential coverage provision says is that if you don't have healthcare, then you have to pay a penalty. And it's being challenged because Congress set the penalty to $0 starting January 2019. And what that resulted in is a lot of states saying, well, that's unconstitutional because the penalty of $0 essentially means that provision of the law doesn't do anything. And doesn't generate, "At least some revenue." As a result, Texas, and a number of other states have filed suit to overturn the entire Affordable Care Act based on that one provision. And there's a really great breakdown of this on the internet, if you just type in California versus Texas