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The Trump administration has agreed in part, saying the mandate and the law’s popular protections for preexisting conditions should be nullified in a recently filed legal brief. “Those parts that the court explicitly upheld under the taxing power, the Department of Justice conceded, under the court’s reasoning, no longer had a constitutional basis,” Cruz, who studied law at Harvard and served as Texas’s solicitor general before coming to Congress, told me. “I think that is a reasonable position for the Justice Department to take.” “I think the consequence if the court agrees with the state of Texas’s lawsuit will be that consumers will have more choices, more competition, more options, more individual freedom and lower premiums,” he continued. “That’s a win for health care consumers across the country.”

The left-leaning Urban Institute just estimated that the number of uninsured Americans would jump to 51 million, a 50 percent increase, if the Texas case were successful and the entire law were found unconstitutional. Legal experts, on the right and the left, have said that the Trump administration’s position in the case is “absurd” and “ludicrous” because if Congress had intended to invalidate the preexisting conditions rules along with the mandate penalty in the tax bill, they would have. A senior career Justice Department attorney also resigned following the administration’s decision not to defend the health care law, as the Washington Post reported.

Ted Cruz defends lawsuit to overturn Obamacare preexisting condition rules - Vox

Killing Obamacare will kill many people, throw others into medical bankruptcy and/or set them up with avoidable medical conditions..