Holding Congress to its Word: Statutory Realism, Second-Generation Textualism, and ACA Entrenchment in Maine Community Health Options Abbe R. Gluck Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
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“The stakes of the risk corridor cases underscore the ACA’s outsized impact. The Supreme Court decides many of the most contentious and significant issues facing the nation, but even the Supreme Court does not get many $12 billion cases.”
- Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, who opposed the ACA in the Supreme Court twice before defending it in 2020[2]
No statute in modern American history has been challenged as much as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Few, if any, other statutes are as long or as complex in design. No statute has been as politically wounded: Congress tried unsuccessfully to repeal the ACA more than seventy times and then worked instead, sometimes with the Wh
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Despite some stronger-than-expected macroeconomic indicators throughout the fall, the economic picture across the U.S. has once again dimmed. In December, American employers slashed 140,000 jobs, while consumer spending fell for the third consecutive month. The U.S. has regained only about 45% of the economic ground lost in the first half of 2020. Of the 22 million jobs that disappeared last March, 10 million have yet to return.
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By Christian M. Wade Statehouse Reporter   Jan 28, 2021
Jan 28, 2021
BOSTON â President Joe Biden has pledged to provide more support for small businesses hammered by the financial impact of coronavirus pandemic, and while the stateâs business leaders say theyâre optimistic that more aid will be coming, theyâre also worried some of the new administrationâs policies may hurt them.
Biden, who was sworn into office Jan. 20, is proposing a $1.9 trillion relief package that would provide $440 billion for businesses, including a $15 billion grant program to help the hardest hit businesses and $175 billion for small business lending and investment programs.
But the Democrat also wants to double the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, expand mandates for paid leave for workers and implement other policies that business leaders say could drag on the countryâs economic recovery.
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