States Say ACA Individual Mandate Changes Make Law Unconstitutional

(February 28, 2018, 10:40 AM EST) -- DALLAS — Elimination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) individual mandate’s penalty makes the mandate itself unlawful under U.S. Supreme Court precedent and leaves the states with an “unconstitutional and irrational regime” that must be eliminated, a coalition of 20 states claim in a Feb. 26 complaint filed in a federal court in Texas (Texas, et al. v. U.S.A., et al., No. 18-167, N.D. Texas)....

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