The White House Blog

The Supreme Court announced today that it would consider the legal challenges to President Obama’s historic health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act.

Earlier this year, the Obama Administration asked the Supreme Court to hear the case against the Affordable Care Act in order to put the challenges to rest and continue moving forward with implementing the law, which will lower the cost of health care for all Americans while ensuring more people are able to access the care they need.

The Affordable Care Act will:

• Reduce the deficit by more than a trillion dollars over the next decade due to decreased spending on health care
• Expand health care coverage to 32 million people who didn’t have it before
• Allow more than 1 million young people to stay on their parent’s health care plans until their 26^th birthday
• End abusive insurance practices such as denying treatment for pre-existing conditions, dropping people from plans when they get sick, and implementing annual and lifetime limits on care
• Strengthen Medicare to help better protect our seniors

“We know the Affordable Care Act is constitutional and are confident the Supreme Court will agree,” White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer said.