The United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act in a 7-2 vote.
The decision dismisses a claim by Texas and other states that the ACA’s mandate requiring individuals buy health insurance or face penalties was unconstitutional, and that the entire ACA should be overturned since the mandate was zeroed out by Congress.
The Supreme Court majority wrote in its opinion “that the plaintiffs do not have standing to challenge [ACA’s] minimum essential coverage provision because they have not shown a past or future injury fairly traceable to defendants’ conduct.”