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    Trump administration lawyers derided for legal attack to void entire health care law

    by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times May 03, 2019 4 minutes

    WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is urging a conservative U.S. appeals court to cancel Medicaid coverage for 12 million Americans, insurance subsidies for 10 million more and the protections for 133 million people against preexisting conditions.

    But it's the legal rationale being advanced by the administration that is many raising eyebrows: Justice Department attorneys are claiming that a full repeal of the Affordable Care Act is exactly what the Democratic-controlled Congress of 2010 and the Republican-controlled Congress of 2017 would have wanted.

    It's a legal argument scholars on the right and left have dismissed as blatantly political. Congress in 2010 voted to pass the law, and lawmakers

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