<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In a filing submitted late Thursday evening, the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to end the <em>Affordable Care Act</em> (ACA)/Obamacare. </span></p>
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<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The request comes amid a surge of COVID-19 cases affecting a population that cannot afford to see a doctor.</span></p>
<p>Up to 27 million Americans have lost <span class="s1">health coverage due to COVID-19 layoffs. </span><span class="s1">According to government reports, roughly 487,000 Americans signed up with HelathCare.gov this year after losing workplace coverage (an increase of 46% compared to last year). This figure does not include sign-ups from states like New York and California that run their own marketplaces. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><i>From personal experience, I know that using Obamacare to extend a basic healthcare package will cost upwards of $400 a month and will likely force you to change doctors. This happened to me after I had waited three months for a scheduled surgery with my former doctor. </i></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">As expected, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi blasted the Supreme Court filing, describing Trump’s appeal as “an act of unfathomable cruelty” and “beyond stupid.”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“There is no legal justification and no moral excuse for the Trump Administration’s disastrous efforts to take away Americans’ healthcare,” said Pelosi, who is planning a floor vote next week on her own proposal to expand Obamacare. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Pelosi&#8217;s proposal seeks to boost federal subsides, limit monthly premiums to 8.5% of participants’ income, expand eligibility by reducing the income cap, and encourage more states to expand Medicaid by covering 100% of the cost for the first three years. In other words, the proposal puts more control over Americans&#8217; healthcare in the hands of the government and increases the deficit.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">With support from 18 GOP-led states, the Trump Administration’s case argues that the ACA’s requirement that all Americans buy insurance is no longer valid after Congress removed the penalty for non-compliance in 2017.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">If the individual mandate is invalidated, then it naturally follows that the rest of the ACA must end, argues Solicitor General Noel Francisco: “The entire ACA thus must fall with the individual mandate, though the scope of relief entered in this case should be limited to provisions shown to injure the plaintiffs.” </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">President Trump has repeatedly promised that people with preexisting conditions will be covered if the ACA is overturned.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><b>Author’s Note: </b></span><span class="s1">If SCOTUS finally decides to end Obamacare, maybe it will allow lawmakers to focus on the real problems with our healthcare system: namely, the lack of transparency and lack of competition.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">SCOTUS will hear the case sometime next term, potentially after the presidential election. </span></p>