A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Maryland’s Democratic attorney general that sought to protect the Affordable Care Act from threats by the Trump administration to undermine it. The judge, Ellen L. Hollander, appointed by President Obama, ruled that the state’s attorney general had not proved that the administration is failing to enforce the sprawling 2010 health care law. “In effect, the state proclaims that the sky is falling,” the judge wrote in a 48-page opinion. In mid-December, a conservative federal judge in Fort Worth ruled the entire law is unconstitutional. The ruling in the Texas case, which has sent shivers through much of the health-care industry about the law’s future, figured in the Maryland judge’s logic.

Source: Washington Post February 01, 2019 21:56 UTC