WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump's administration has stepped up its attack on the Obamacare healthcare law, telling a federal appeals court it agrees with a ruling by a US judge in Texas that the entire statute is unconstitutional and should be struck down.
Trump had said he would not cut that aspect when campaigning for the White House, although his 2020 budget proposal slashed the program's funding. Democrats made defending the law a powerful messaging tool in the run-up to last November's elections, when opinion polls showed that eight in 10 Americans wanted to defend the law's most popular benefits, including protections for insurance coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. The strategy paid off and Democrats won a 38-seat majority in the US House of Representatives.
Obamacare survived a 2012 legal challenge at the Supreme Court when a majority of justices ruled the individual mandate aspect of the programme, which requires individuals to buy insurance or pay a penalty, was a tax that Congress had the authority to impose.
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