Most people can't BEGIN to fathom what a clusterfuck SCOTUS striking down the #ACA would be. It isn't a simple matter of "resetting the clock to 2009" even if that's what you WANTED to do.
https://twitter.com/nicholas_bagley/status/1320733869574922241
Re. timing: My *assumption* is that if SCOTUS strikes down the #ACA in, say, April, that they'd also put a stay on their ruling until 1/1/22 since millions of people would be in the middle of a legally-binding contractual agreement, as would hospitals/doctors/etc. But...
...as @amylotven discovered a few years back, there was an "exit clause" included in the contracts carriers sign with the government which would have let them terminate coverage IMMEDIATELY in the event CSR payments were cut off. As it happened that worked itself out, but...
...if there's a similar clause in the 2021 contracts, it's conceivable that insurance carriers would be legally allowed to bail MID-YEAR *if* SCOTUS were to order the ACA struck down with immediate effect. That's highly unlikely but a LOT of unprecedented things have happened...
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