The New Obamacare Lawsuit Could Undo Far More Than Protections for Pre-existing Conditions

Removing two rules from the individual market could very easily disrupt many others & make insurance harder to obtain for people who buy their own insurance or get it through a small company, and possibly making it unaffordable for many middle-income people who receive financial assistance with their health insurance premiums under the law. The Justice Department’s brief argues that last year’s tax reform bill has rendered Obamacare’s individual mandate — the requirement that a vast majority of Americans buy health insurance — unconstitutional. If the individual mandate is stripped away, it argues, two other key parts of Obamacare should necessarily fall with it."