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  • The Affordable Care Act (ACA) aims for near universal health insurance coverage by providing tax credits to individuals purchasing insurance through health care exchanges.
  • Several lawsuits are challenging the distribution of these tax credits in states that did not set up their own exchanges, arguing from a questionable interpretation of the ACA.
  • Courts are urged to dismiss these lawsuits as they threaten to dismantle essential components of the ACA and hinder efforts to cover the uninsured.

Article Abstract

As an essential part of its effort to achieve near universal coverage, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) extends sizable tax credits to most people who buy insurance on the newly established health care exchanges. Yet several lawsuits have been filed challenging the availability of those tax credits in the thirty-four states that refused to set up their own exchanges. The lawsuits are premised on a strained interpretation of the ACA that, if accepted, would make a hash of other provisions of the statute and undermine its effort to extend coverage to the uninsured. The courts should reject this latest effort to dismantle a critical feature of the ACA.

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