WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump's administration late on Thursday asked the US Supreme Court to invalidate the law dubbed Obamacare that, introduced by predecessor, added millions of Americans to the country's healthcare safety net.
"Nothing the 2017 Congress did demonstrates it would have intended the rest of the ACA to continue to operate in the absence of these three integral provisions," Mr Francisco said. The Democratic House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi earlier described the move as"unfathomable cruelty" amid the coronavirus outbreak, which has hit the United States harder than any other country.
Trump has criticised healthcare costs and coverage under Obamacare and has been promising since his 2016 campaign to replace it with a different plan.