The filing assures renewedattention to President Donald Trump's position that the ACA shouldbe eliminated, including its subsidies and popular rules banninginsurers from charging more to people with pre-existingconditions.
The Trump administration is hardening its legal position towardObamacare, arguing now the entire law is unconstitutional in ashift that promises to bring the issue to the forefront of the 2020election campaign.
The position is a change for the Justice Department after itargued last year that large parts of the 2010 law — but not all ofit — should be struck in the case Texas v. U.S., which is pendingbefore the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. A trial court judgesided with Texas and voided the law in a December ruling. TheJustice Department now says that the entire law, enacted underPresident Barack Obama, should be thrown out.
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