The US House of Representatives dominant Democrats and the 20 Democratic-led states have made a special appeal to the Supreme Court.
They want the court to rule in the favour that Obamacare does not infringe on the US Constitution as it has been declared by lower courts, following the ganging up against the healthcare plan by the Republican-led states.
Reuters on Friday reported that the House and States such as California and the New York want the Supreme Court to hear their appeals of a Dec 18 verdict by the New Orleans-based 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that decreed the 2010 law's "individual mandate" that demanded people get health insurance unconstitutional.
They have asked the conservative majority who constitute the Supreme Court to speed up the case and give a decisive verdict on the law.
"The Affordable Care Act has been the law of the land for a decade now and despite efforts by President Trump, his administration and congressional Republicans to take us backwards, we will not strip health coverage away from millions of Americans,” - New York Attorney-General Letitia James stated.
Texas and 17 other conservative states supported by President Donald Trump's regime had challenged the law, signed 2010 by then-Democratic President Barrack Obama despite the Republican opposition to the Affordable Care Act as reported by the Washington Post.
Obamacare is a hallmark due to its unique domestic policy success. It has faced opposition from Congressional Republican with attempts to repeal it.
With the fate of Obamacare remaining unresolved, pundits argue that by removing the individual mandate clause, the 5th Circuit failed to answer vital question of; if the rest of the law will remain in place or it will be done away with, and that with Supreme Court cumbered with loads of cases, they do not see it helping settle the matter soon, rather the lower courts will have a field day in interpreting the verdict.