Commentary: Amy Coney Barrett's addition to the Supreme Court isn't a guaranteed Obamacare killer
Unable to stop Republicans from hastily confirming Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats have spent much of the past two weeks predicting that she will push the high court to kill the Affordable Care Act. And that, in turn, will leave more than 20 million Americans without health insurance during a pandemic, while also eliminating key protections for people with preexisting conditions.
It's a scary possibility, yet whether Barrett is the ACA's executioner is far from certain. That's true despite her now well-known (and not subtle) criticism of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s reasoning when he voted in 2012 to uphold the ACA's mandate that adult Americans maintain health insurance coverage.
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