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Our Country Will Be Healthier, and Moms and Families Stronger, Because SCOTUS Refused to Strike Down the Affordable Care Act Today

June 17, 2021
Health Care

Lisa Lederer, 202/371-1996

Statement from Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO of MomsRising, the online and on-the-ground organization of more than one million mothers and their families, on today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in California v. Texas, upholding the Affordable Care Act (ACA):

“Today’s 7 – 2 U.S. Supreme Court ruling is a major, meaningful victory for moms, families and our country. A U.S. Supreme Court reshaped by former President Trump refused to strike down the ACA, instead ruling, correctly, that those who attacked it had no standing. This is a good outcome for the country.

“This ruling means the 31 million people who have gained coverage through this law, all those who need maternity and mental health care, and the 133 million people with pre-existing conditions, most of whom are women, can breathe a sigh of relief. All those who lost their employer-sponsored coverage in the pandemic are now more secure. All those who needed care after being infected with COVID-19, or will need care as the pandemic continues, will be better off.  This is particularly critical to women and moms of color who experienced outsized health and economic harms during the pandemic and throughout our nation’s history. 

“This ruling should put to rest the baseless, relentless attacks on the ACA, which has been a tremendous and unequivocal success. It is time for lawmakers to join together to further strengthen our health care system, including doing much more to address racial health disparities, making permanent the improvements in the American Rescue Plan, undoing harmful Trump regulations, extending Medicaid expansion to all states, making coverage universal, securing women’s access to reproductive care, and ensuring we can all afford the medications we need.

“Our country will be healthier, and moms and families stronger, because of today’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling.”

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.