Month: December 2019

Appeals court strikes down individual mandate, stops short of scrapping entire ACA

Appeals court strikes down individual mandate, stops short of scrapping entire ACA

December 18, 2019 SHELBY LIVINGSTON  A federal appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate is unconstitutional, but it stopped short of striking down the entire healthcare law. Two judges on the three-judge panel at the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans decided that the individual mandate is not constitutional […]