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Supreme Court upholds Affordable Care Act Full Text
American Pharmacists Association News, 07/16/2012
Leaving the pharmacy–friendly provisions of the health care reform law intact, the U.S. Supreme Court today upheld the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a complicated 5–4 decision. Ruling ACA constitutional in one part and unconstitutional in another part, the court upheld the “individual mandate” as a tax but not under the Commerce Clause, and limited the law’s expansion of Medicaid so that states can’t be penalized to the full extent of their Medicaid funding for not complying with this expansion.