{"id":11632,"date":"2018-09-29T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2018-09-27T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:57:11","slug":"threat-to-the-aca-turns-up-the-heat-on-attorney-general-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=11632","title":{"rendered":"Threat To The ACA Turns Up The Heat On Attorney General Races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emmarie Huetteman for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>For years, congressional Republicans have vowed to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Now, in a case sending shock waves through midterm election campaigns, Republican attorneys general across the country may be poised to make good on that promise.<\/p>\n<p>The case,\u00a0Texas v. United States,\u00a0reveals just how high the stakes are for health care in this year\u2019s attorney general races, elections that rarely receive much attention but have the power to reverberate through the lives of Americans. <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/threat-to-the-aca-turns-up-the-heat-on-attorney-general-races\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=66249332&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8QqrrqTEuJBtNWQ44Q8nmyPV6fzItRNLVK0nBbMR4HBxAHDW6RV5q5FfSHSLuxiqwQh4aQGFJoHkfxzSCe8g2wC-ONBQ&amp;_hsmi=66249332\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit;\">Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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