TEXAS — The trial for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's lawsuit to end the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, will begin Sept. 10.
ACA -- which was enacted in March 2010 -- provides affordable health insurance that lowers costs for households with incomes between 100 to 400 percent of the federal poverty level.
Paxton, who filed the lawsuit in February, is leading a 20-state coalition along with Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel to fight against Obamacare.
In a press release from April, Paxton said Obamacare makes people buy insurance that they don't need.
"From the outset, Obamacare's individual mandate caused countless Americans to purchase insurance they don't need or enroll in programs that put a tremendous financial burden on Texas and other states," Paxton said. "The sooner Obamacare is enjoined, the better, so that states and individuals can prepare to operate freely again without the stranglehold of a failed Obama-era social experiment."
Paxton said he is joined in this lawsuit with attorney generals from Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia, and with the governors of Maine and Mississippi.
For more information about the ACA, go here.
Paxton was indicted in 2015 in a criminal security fraud case. He was accused of misleading investors before he was named attorney general.
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