{"id":12216,"date":"2018-12-17T08:17:30","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12216"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:17:30","slug":"judge-strikes-down-aca-putting-law-in-legal-peril-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12216","title":{"rendered":"Judge Strikes Down ACA Putting Law In Legal Peril \u2014 Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Julie Rovner for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>The future of the Affordable Care Act is threatened \u2014 again \u2014 this time by a ruling Friday from a federal district court judge in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Reed C. O\u2019Connor struck down the law, siding with a group of 18 Republican state attorneys general and two GOP governors who brought the case. 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