New ruling means Supreme Court dodges Obamacare showdown, but legal fight rolls on Thursday, December 19, 2019

CNN

After a long-awaited ruling from a US appeals court on the fate of the Affordable Care Act, this much is clear: the wait will only be longer, and uncertainty over the future of the law that provided new coverage for millions of Americans will only linger.

The New Orleans-based court ruled unconstitutional the individual insurance mandate -- which the federal government was no longer enforcing -- yet refused to resolve the most pressing issue: does that mean the rest of the law is also unconstitutional?

By a 2-1 vote, the appeals panel returned the case to a US district court judge for the start of another round of rulings.

Read more at: https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/19/politics/supreme-court-affordable-care-act-analysis/index.html

Read the court's opinion at: http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/19/19-10011-CV0.pdf