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PA Lawmakers Put Partisan Politics Before Jobs, People’s Lives

Not to be left out of the controversy, some PA legislators have jumped on the eager-to-repeal health care bandwagon by introducing a bill in the House invalidating the individual mandate provision of the Affordable Care Act. Rather than tackle problems like unemployment and putting Pennsylvanians back to work, the opposition in Harrisburg is working to stop implementation of the Affordable Care Act and block all the critical protections it brings to Pennsylvania families.

Assessing the Legal Challenges to the Affordable Care Act

There has been a flood of news and analysis in light of Monday’s ruling by a Florida judge invalidating the “individual mandate” provision of the Affordable Care Act and striking down the entire law (view the full text of the decision here). Leaving aside the politics of the lawsuit (and the judge, who is a Reagan appointee), here are the issues at the heart of the legal challenge:

Affordability and cost will be big issues in fall session

When Congress returns to session in September, the silliness about euthanisia and a government take-over of health care will be behind us. Then the debate will begin to focus on practical questions of cost: how to pay for a plan that would make health insurance affordable for American families that don't have coverage now and have precious little to contribute to insurance premiums.

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