Obamacare Takes Another Hit In Federal Appeals Court Ruling

Since its passage, the Affordable Care Act has been the subject of multiple court cases and attempts to derail it in Congress, attempts which garnered protests in 2017. The law survived so far but a key provision was struck down Wednesday in federal court.

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Updated at 8:28 p.m. ET

A federal appeals court panel in New Orleans has dealt another blow to the Affordable Care Act, agreeing with a lower-court judge that the portion of the health law requiring most people to have coverage is unconstitutional now that Congress has eliminated the tax penalty that was intended to enforce it.

But it is sending the case back to the lower court to decide how much of the rest of the law can stand in light of that ruling.