'A huge relief': Obamacare patients hopeful, wary after Supreme Court upholds law

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'Nobody in this country should go bankrupt for medical care. Nobody should have to forgo their pills or not get that surgery they need or go to their follow-up,' said a cancer survivor.

, by a 7-2 vote, rejected the states' claim that Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, was unconstitutional and that therefore the entire law should be scrapped. It's the third Supreme Court challenge the law has survived since President Barack Obama signed it in 2010.

NBC News spoke to six ACA patients and four Obamacare advocates about their feelings after the Supreme Court's decision.in medical bills to treat her daughter's rare breathing disorder and became an advocate promoting the ACA as a result."Every Monday and Thursday for the past several weeks, I've clicked refresh every morning to see if they'd made a decision. Today there's some relief, but I'm also just reflecting on the last several years of the toll, the stress.

But the Supreme Court decision cemented Obamacare as"the law of the land and that’s from where you build," he added, with affordable, universal coverage being the ultimate goal. Still, many ACA patients also expressed deep feelings of bitterness over the long partisan battle waged in the past decade: numerous legal challenges, the piecemeal expansion of Medicaid in conservative states and the Trump administration's offensive against the law.

 

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