Assignment - Public Health and Health Law - PHAM 622

Please give brief answers of following questions :

• Why is health care a federal issue?
• What is ERISA and whom does it cover?
• What state laws does ERISA preempt?
• What is the history of the individual mandate (ie pre-ACA, who supported it? Who opposed it? What about now?)
• What does the Affordable Care Act do?
• How is the ACA funded?
• What did the ACA require with respect to the individual mandate (NOTE that this was repealed by Congress in the Tax legislation of 2017 - this is emphasized in the ppts but I have received several questions on this)?
• What did the ACA originally require in terms of Medicaid expansion?
• What was the NFIB v Sebelius case about? What was it holding? details describes
• What was the California v Texas case about? details describes