The funny thing about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is that manypeople who support it will admit — if pressed — that it is a verypoorly drafted piece of legislation.
The overall purpose of the ACA, of course, is to provide ageneral structure for universal health coverage, but Congress leftmost of the details to three federal agencies (the Internal Revenue Service, theDepartment of Labor, and the Department of Health and HumanServices) to sort out on their own. The results have been mixed, tosay the least, though in fairness, the agencies have done the bestthey could with what they were given.
As if that weren’t enough, last year’s King v. Burwell casedemonstrated that the ACA is so badly written that the members ofthe United States Supreme Court — nine of the most intelligent,experienced, learned lawyers in the nation — couldn’t even come toan agreement as to what it actually says and does.
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