Xavier Becerra in 2022 CA Senate race

On Health Care: 133M people with pre-existing conditions rely on ObamaCare

Open enrollment for Affordable Care Act's health insurance will continue despite the federal judge's ruling that the law is unconstitutional and must be "invalidated in whole." U.S. District Judge Reed O'Connor, a federal judge in Texas appointed by President George W. Bush, ruled that last year's tax cut bill knocked the constitutional foundation from under ObamaCare by eliminating a penalty for not having coverage. The rest of the law cannot be separated from that provision and is therefore invalid, he wrote.

Congress is unlikely to act while the case remains in the courts. Xavier Becerra, the California attorney general, vowed to appeal the decision. "Today's ruling is an assault on 133 million Americans with pre-existing conditions, on the 20 million Americans who rely on the A.C.A.'s consumer protections for health care, on America's faithful progress toward affordable health care for all Americans," Becerra said in a statement, obtained by The New York Times.

Source: Fox News on 2022 California Senate race Dec 15, 2018

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