Houston Chronicle by Benjamin Wermund Nov. 10, 2020
Texas attorneys will urge the Supreme Court Tuesday to strike down the Affordable Care Act amid reports that more Texans are seeking the health insurance offered under the law during the pandemic.
The Texas-led challenge to the Affordable Care Act is one of the first high-profile tests of the new 6-3 conservative majority on the high court, which has been reshaped by three appointees of President Donald Trump. And much is on the line.
If the court were to scrap the health care law, some 21 million Americans, including 788,000 Texans, could lose insurance, according to recent estimates by the Urban Institute, a D.C.-based think tank. More than 5 million Texans are already uninsured, the most in the nation.
But Texans behind the case argue that the ACA’s offerings are far from the affordable health care the law promises. Among the individual plaintiffs in the case is Neall Hurley, a Fort Bend man who says he now pays nearly $25,000 out of pocket every year to cover the costs for monthly premiums and expenses for his family of four.
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