At stake are a number of protections and programs created by the #ACA, including the law's expansion of #Medicaid.
Most notably, Americans with #preexistingconditions could lose their insurance coverage if the ACA's safeguards are struck down. #Obamacare#SCOTUS#RBG
Americans diagnosed with #COVID19 would likely be uninsurable or unable to gain coverage for any ill effects to blood vessels, limbs, major organs or their immune systems, which can all be damaged by the disease, tweeted former CMS' @ASlavitt.
Regardless of #SCOTUS' makeup, the plaintiffs' arguments in the case & the lower courts' rulings are "remarkably weak" & have been "roundly criticized" by even conservative scholars & some Republicans on Capitol Hill, @GeorgetownLaw's Katie Keith wrote in @Health_Affairs.
.@WHCOVIDResponse briefing coming up at 10:30amET with someone different today: #HHS@SecBecerra, who's joining @CDCDirector Walensky, #NIH Fauci, Jeff Zients to discuss a roadmap to enable US to move forward safely & sustain/build on progress #COVID19😷
"Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They keep moving. And, the costs & threats to America & the world keep rising.
"#Putin’s war was premeditated & unprovoked. He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West & @NATO wouldn’t respond. And, he thought he could divide us here at home.
Putin was wrong. We were ready."
.@VP@KamalaHarris: For the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian-Americans. People with the biggest pulpits spreading this kind of hate.
.@VP@KamalaHarris: A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.
The president and I will not be silent. We will not stand by. We will always speak out against violence, hate crimes & discrimination, wherever and whenever it occurs.