Barr urges the Trump administration to cancel calls to completely topple Obamacare

Even before the pandemic, more than 11.4 million people registered for Obamacare coverage for 2020 and around 12.5 million were enrolled in Medicaid expansion.

Trump’s domestic policy aides have rejected any changes in the current Trump administration’s legal arguments, arguing that the legal position must move forward without change because Republicans have been campaigning to revoke Obamacare for a decade. The aides dismissed the possibility of new political impacts, and pushed Barr back at Monday’s meeting.

The Department of Justice declined to comment.

This split has been a long-running battle within the government, but has a new sense of urgency because the government faces a deadline on Wednesday if it wants to change its argument.

The current administration believes that individual insurance requirements are unconstitutional, and because the mandate is bound by other legal provisions, the Affordable Care Act must fall. If the administration will withdraw from the absolute position, it is likely to submit a submission to the Supreme Court within the next 48 hours, based on the current court briefing schedule for the parties to the duel. If not, the administrative brief will not mature to the high court until June.

Barr has long supported the government position, which has shifted many times since the lawsuit began in early 2018. The administration believes that only two main provisions protecting Americans with pre-existing conditions will fall, but the rest of the law can remain. In a dramatic reversal soon after Barr became attorney general in early 2019, the Department of Justice said the Affordable Care Act had to be canceled. A few months later, the government argued before a federal appeals court that the law could only be beaten because it applied to a coalition of Republican-led countries that brought challenges.

After a decade, the Affordable Care Act has affected almost every aspect of the health care system. That requires that all Americans get protection and create a market to buy insurance. It also expands Medicaid for poor people and diabetics who are protected, cancer patients and others with pre-existing conditions of being denied coverage or charging higher premiums.

On the other side are California and the states led by Democrats and the US House which are now controlled by Democrats. The Affordable Care Act remains in force through litigation.

The Supreme Court agreed earlier this year to take the ACA dispute. The case is likely to be heard in autumn, but a decision will not be expected until 2021, after the November presidential election.

This case will mark the third time that the Supreme Court took a major ACA dispute. In 2012, the judges upheld the law, by 5-4 votes, with Chief Justice John Roberts voting with four liberal judges over the differences of opinion of four conservatives. Roberts bases his opinion on the taxation strength of Congress.

This story has been updated to include additional background information and reflects that the Department of Justice declined to comment.