The battle over the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has been raging for years — in reality, the law has been challenged at every turn since its inception.

After the individual mandate, or penalty for failure to purchase health insurance, was reduced to $0 by the 2017 tax reform legislation, the chance that the ACA may be found unconstitutional in whole or part is greater than ever. The death of liberal justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg further increases the odds that the law could be overturned.

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