Rep. Cartwright Statement on Supreme Court Decision to Uphold Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

Statement

Today, U.S. Representative Matt Cartwright (PA-08) made this statement on the U.S. Supreme Court's dismissal of Republicans' third legal challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) in ten years:

"For more than ten years, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been the key to health coverage for millions of working families, seniors and people with pre-existing conditions," said Rep. Cartwright. "With the Supreme Court's rejection of the GOP's latest assault on this critical health care law, everyone who relies on it can finally breathe a sigh of relief. Now, it is time for us to get back to work to improve upon the ACA and make health care better and more accessible for all Americans."

Rep. Cartwright has been an outspoken critic of this lawsuit brought by a group of state GOP attorneys general, which attempted to strike down the entirety of the ACA. Had the legal challenge been successful, health coverage for over 1 million Pennsylvanians and dozens of rural Pennsylvania hospitals would have been jeopardized.

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