An important portion of the Affordable Care Act has been struck down by a federal appeals court, which ruled that the mandate that requires people to have health insurance is unconstitutional.
The court is sending the case to a lower court to rule on whether the rest of the ACA can stand without the mandate.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson talks with Julie Rovner (@jrovner), chief Washington correspondent for Kaiser Health News, about what the ruling means for the ACA.
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