Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h
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The number of uninsured from 25. 6 million americans to 27. 5 million americans. A difference of 1. 9 million. Just for general reference, i will round that off to say roughly two Million People are uninsured who had insurance in 2018 versus 2017. So thats deeply troubling because that number is up the number of uninsured is up not just generally from 17 to 18 but more broadly is a change in the trend lines where we have been for most of the last decade. So i think its pretty clear that the Trump Administrations sabotage of Health Insurance is indeed working. Its reversing coverage gains that were made in the Affordable Care act in the years after enactment and implementation of the Affordable Care act. Were told as well that the number of uninsured children is up, so more children without insurance from 2017 to 2018. Heres what one one observer from the Kaiser Health news said. His name is phil gaelowicz. And im quoting for the first time in a decade, the number of americans without H