Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181218:04:50:00
The bill is severable, you can remove it, then you can say that part is unconstitutional but the rest of the bill can stand. clearly the rest of the affordable care act is operating. we still have medicaid enrollment. we still have the cost troll and the exchanges by the way are working fine because of the subsidies. so lots of the aca is working fine without the mandate and the penalty, the tax penalty from the mandate. so the judge is just wrong about how essential the mandate is when he declared the whole bill unconstitutional. >> but there are those who say on appeal that this will be over...