{"id":151,"date":"2012-06-28T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T16:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-09-10T12:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T16:39:48","slug":"supreme-court-upholds-acas-individual-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2012\/06\/28\/supreme-court-upholds-acas-individual-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Upholds ACA\u2019s Individual Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act\u2019s (\u201cACA\u201d) individual mandate in a long-anticipated decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. The Court upheld the ACA\u2019s individual mandate under Congress\u2019 taxing power, and also held that the lawsuits challenging the ACA were not barred by the anti-injunction act. The Court, however, found the ACA\u2019s Medicaid expansion unconstitutional because it \u201cthreaten[ed] States with the loss of their existing Medicaid funding if they decline to comply with the expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full slip opinion may be accessed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/11pdf\/11-393c3a2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On June 28, 2012, the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act\u2019s (\u201cACA\u201d) individual mandate in a long-anticipated decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. The Court upheld the ACA\u2019s individual mandate under Congress\u2019 taxing power, and also held that the lawsuits challenging the ACA were not barred by the anti-injunction act. The &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/2012\/06\/28\/supreme-court-upholds-acas-individual-mandate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Supreme Court Upholds ACA\u2019s Individual Mandate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[147,38,31,33,32,246],"ppma_author":[906],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-reform","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-employers-reform-updates","tag-hospitals-reform-updates","tag-long-term-care-reform-updates","tag-physicians-reform-updates","tag-supreme-court"],"authors":[{"term_id":906,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/healthlaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}