; Whereas, if the ruling of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Texas v. United States is upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, people in the United States would lose numerous consumer protections, including the requirements that— (1) plans offer preventive care without cost-sharing; (2) young adults can remain on their parents’ insurance plan until age 26; (3) many health insurance plans offer a comprehensive set of essential health benefits such as maternity care, addiction treatment, and prescription drug coverage; (4) individuals cannot be denied coverage due to, and coverage cannot be medically underwritten to reflect, gender; and (5) individuals cannot be denied coverage due to, and coverage cannot be medically underwritten to reflect, a pre-existing medical condition; Whereas a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States that the ACA must be struck down would cost the United States an estimated 3,000,000 jobs at a time when national unemployment as a result of the global pandemic exceeds 11 percent; Whereas, in the midst of a global pandemic, the Department of Justice is continuing to pursue a strategy to have the ruling of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas in Texas v. United States upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, which would result in health care coverage being torn away from millions of people in the United States; Whereas people in the United States who are facing the economic and physical risks of a global pandemic cannot also face an ongoing threat that a ruling by the Supreme Court of the United States could invalidate their health care coverage; and Whereas dismantling the health care system in the United States in the midst of a global pandemic, when millions of people in the United States have lost work and the ACA provides an alternative to employer-based health insurance, would trigger chaos: Now, therefore, be it