Will the Affordable Care Act be made ineffective by this case? Supreme Court decides.

Because the complex law depends on three principles—tax help for participants, shared responsibility (meaning the individual coverage mandate) and reforms of the insurance market—to extend health coverage to more Americans, a decision that significantly hobbled one leg of that stool would undermine the entire law, observers believe.

The case “is the most existential threat to the viability of the Affordable Care Act in about three dozen states,” says Ron Pollack, the executive director of Families USA, a Washington, D.C., group that lobbies on behalf of health care consumers and is a strong supporter of the ACA. “The stakes are very high.”

Article here (via ABA journal). 

What is your access to medical care, now that the Affordable Care Act is in effect?

In case you haven't been in a cave the past few weeks, you're aware that the Affordable Care Act is now in effect (also known as Obamacare). What is your access to health care now? Do you have to enroll now? Here's a good Wikipedia article on this. It's not the most complete article but gives a general overview of what to expect. In Michigan, there is a state-federal partnership exchange.The good news is that you can register on the exchanges if you're eligible.


The bad news is that hardly anyone is registering, according to this article. But perhaps this will change as the weeks go by.