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A Louisiana Court of Appeal began Tuesday (July 9th) to review the legality of the Health Insurance Act. At trial, a Texas judge declared the text unconstitutional after a lawsuit filed by eighteen Republican states.
With our correspondent in Washington, Anne Corpet
It's the health care coverage of millions of Americans that is at stake. If the New Orleans Court of Appeal upholds the decision of a Texan judge in December, people from the poorest social classes may lose social coverage guaranteed by the iconic law of the Obama presidency.
The issue is also political. Donald Trump has always promised to abolish this text, but failed to do so in Congress . If the court decides in their favor, the Republicans can bully, but they will face a new challenge: they will have to propose an alternative to the law they want to remove from the map because a majority of Americans now supports the text that allows them to be covered regardless of their medical history.
The subject is already at the heart of the campaign for the elections of 2020. Candidates for the nomination of the Democratic Party plead for a strengthening of Obamacare, or even for universal health insurance.
The judgment of the Court of Appeal should not fall for several months, and will certainly be followed by an appeal to the Supreme Court.