Modern Healthcare: The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday refused to defend the Affordable Care Act against 20 states' lawsuit looking to strike down the healthcare law, calling the individual mandate unconstitutional.
Although the DOJ stopped short of asking a federal judge in Texas to overturn the entire ACA, the agency echoed the core arguments of the Republican state attorneys general: that the ACA can't stand without the individual mandate's tax penalty.
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