Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Pivotal Case That Decides Fate of ACA After Election

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on November 10, a week after the presidential election, according to a FierceHealthcare report.

The court was likely to schedule the hearing after the election that takes place Nov. 3. A decision on the case, which will decide whether the ACA is struck down, is expected in June 2021. The case centers on a lawsuit brought by Texas and 17 red states. The lawsuit focuses on the ACA’s individual mandate for everyone to have insurance. The 2017 tax reform law zeroed out the penalty for the individual mandate.

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