What if Supreme Court is not done with health reform law?

Justices tell a lower court to reconsider a plaintiff’s argument that the requirement for employers to provide insurance covering abortions violates its religious freedoms.

By Alicia Gallegos, amednews staff. Posted Dec. 10, 2012.

Legal analysts said a revived legal challenge against the Affordable Care Act by a Christian university could put the health system reform law back in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, even after the high court upheld the bulk of the statute as constitutional.

In a rare move, the Supreme Court on Nov. 26 ordered a federal appeals court to reconsider a constitutional challenge against the ACA that focuses on whether the measure’s employer insurance coverage mandate violates religious freedoms. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals previously had dismissed the lawsuit, brought by Liberty University in Virginia, without considering the suit’s merits.

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