None of the court's precedents "permits striking down an entire act based on the unconstitutionality of a single insignificant provision," states say in their defense of the ACA. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
One of the debates over Texas v. California — the big Affordable Care Act (ACA) constitutionality case — concerns what should happen if the U.S. Supreme Court declares the individual mandate provision to be unconstitutional.
Many individuals and groups have sent in their own thoughts, in "friend of the court briefs," to explain why they think the Supreme Court can cut out the mandate without killing the whole law.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
