Amy Coney Barrett Is No Threat to Obamacare
Democrats are crying wolf when they warn that conservative Supreme Court justices are likely to strike down the Affordable Care Act.
Political posturing.
Photographer: Anna Moneymaker/BloombergJoe Biden’s official statement on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett mentions her name once. It mentions Roe v. Wade once. It has eight sentences alluding to the court’s pending case on the Affordable Care Act.
The fate of Obamacare is the issue that Biden, and other Democrats, think gives them their best political opportunity during Barrett’s confirmation process. They are probably right. The 2010 health-care law’s guarantee of affordable insurance coverage for people with preexisting medical conditions is popular (at least in isolation), and many voters intensely support it. Texas has a lawsuit against Obamacare, which the administration of President Donald Trump is backing. If the lawsuit succeeded and Congress and the president did not pass a new protection, people with pre-existing conditions could have trouble getting affordable insurance.