Latest Court Challenge To Affordable Health Care Act Draws Comment From Florida Civil Attorney

BRADENTON, Fla. - March 10, 2015 - PRLog -- The controversial Affordable Health Care Act, often called 'Obamacare' is once again under attack, facing a new challenge at the Supreme Court of the United States.

The suit referred to as King v. Burwell, being orchestrated by a conservative libertarian group is claiming that the law only grants the Federal Government the authority to provide subsidies for people that live in states that have developed their own so called insurance exchanges.

The core of the plaintiffs strategy is based on language within the law itself, and if the court rules in the plaintiffs favor, would with one stroke make health insurance coverage unaffordable for more than 8 million Americans, as well as cause an insurance “death spiral” as families are forced to cancel their plans they cannot afford to pay without the assistance.

The mass cancelation of insurance plans would move the financial burden of paying claims for the very sick, now spread across a growing pool of more than 11 million ACA enrollees, to only those people who either live in a state with a state run exchange or can afford to make the insurance premiums.

The practical effect of a SCOTUS ruling in the plaintiffs favor will be to force the majority of Obamacare enrollees to leave the insurance pool and causing the law to fail.  Additionally this would bring chaos to the health insurance market as insurance companies must adjust plans to a new reality that includes millions of customers gone overnight. Much higher premiums will likely result and millions of people will once again be uninsured.

Experienced Civil Trial Attorney Bernard Walsh from the Florida Law Firm Shapiro Goldman Babboni & Walsh had this comment on the issue, “the stakes could not be higher for this case, and for some, more infuriating. While the law has drawn a lot of controversy from those with deeply held political beliefs on both sides of the political spectrum, now that over 11.4 million people have obtained health insurance coverage through the law, the time for deciding to keep or scrap the ACA is long over.  As a personal injury attorney who has seen the devastating effects severe injury from accidents or negligence can cause to entire families that do have insurance, and how hard a fight it can be at times to get insurance companies to honor their obligations, it is clear that having millions of families lose health insurance coverage will greatly reduce the options available to those who have been injured and have lost coverage. For millions to lose coverage overnight will have a profound and far reaching negative impact on many in our state that will go far beyond doctors visits. One can only hope that the justices will be inclined to decide based on the very clear intent of the law.”

About Attorney Bernard Walsh

Highly experienced, AV Rated attorney, and Founder of the Manasota Trial Lawyers Board, Bernard Walsh is an active member in multiple legal organizations including The Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America (APITLA), the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Florida Justice Association and the National Trial Lawyers Association.

Bernard Walsh is an active member of the Manatee and Sarasota Sheriff’s Advisory Boards, the Florida Highway Patrol Advisory Council and the One Hundred Club for Law Enforcement in Manatee.A managing partner at the Personal Injury and Civil Trial Law firm of Shapiro, Goldman, Babboni and Walsh, Bernard Walsh has helped hundreds of Floridians get fair compensation for injuries. Additionally Bernard Walsh has won one of Florida's largest motorcycle accident recoveries and has an AV Preeminent® rating on AVVO, a doctors and attorneys ratings website.

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