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Content: The same is true of any law, including the Affordable Care Act. Whether you agree with a law or not, the fact is that there are consequences to ignoring it. When lawmakers drafted the ACA, they put measures into place that would hold people accountable for obtaining coverage. If you don’t get health insurance and you don’t qualify for an exemption, then you will be charged a penalty fee for noncompliance. Judicial Challenges to the Individual Mandate
In the early days of the Affordable Care Act, the individual mandate was challenged not just by the court of public opinion but by the highest court in the land – the Supreme Court. In 2010 and 2011, different federal circuit courts, the 6th and the 11th, issued conflicting decisions regarding the constitutionality of requiring every American citizen to obtain health insurance. The Supreme Court took the issue up for review on November 14, 2011 in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. From 2009 to 2014, Kathleen Sebelius was the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. At question in this case was whether the individual mandate was a valid extension of the government’s power, specifically the power of Congress. The court also had to decide if invalidating the mandate invalidated the entire law.