NDRN Joined 18 Other Disability Rights Organizations in an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality and Severability of the Affordable Care Act

May 13, 2020
NDRN Joined 18 Other Disability Rights Organizations in an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality and Severability of the Affordable Care Act
NDRN Joined 18 Other Disability Rights Organizations in an Amicus Brief in the Supreme Court on the Constitutionality and Severability of the Affordable Care Act

On May 13, 2020, NDRN joined 18 other disability rights organizations in an amicus filed in the U.S. Supreme Court in California v. Texas regarding the constitutionality and severability of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and highlighting how a number of ACA provisions are critical in providing health care to people with disabilities. The amicus brief also addressed how the Medicaid expansion in the ACA provides people with disabilities better, and sometimes unprecedented access to health care. The Supreme Court heard argument in the case on November 10, 2020.