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When did the U.S. Supreme Court decide the Affordable Care Act cases?
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The U.S. Supreme Court decided the Affordable Care Act casesâa set of three consolidated legal challengesâon June 28, 2012.1
In that ruling, the Court upheld key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate, which the Court determined was a valid exercise of Congress's power to tax. The Court also ruled that the law's expansion of Medicaid must be voluntary for the states.123
It is important to distinguish these 2012 constitutional challenges from later litigation, such as King v. Burwell, which the Supreme Court decided on June 25, 2015, and focused on issues of legislative interpretation rather than the constitutionality of the act.4