The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is back in court. Since the 2017 tax bill cut out the individual mandate at the heart of the law, challengers now say the remaining part of the law is unconstitutional.
The mandate was put into effect to lower the number of uninsured people and keep costs down by getting healthy people to buy insurance. Data from two government agencies – the Internal Revenue Service and the US Census Bureau – show how health insurance rates for Americans have changed after the ACA went into effect and how many households paid the penalty for not adhering to the individual mandate.
