The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's case to find the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional. This is the third time the U.S. Supreme Court has found the ACA constitutional. It is long overdue for Texas to expand Medicaid to provide over a million Texans with access to quality healthcare instead of wasting taxpayer money pursuing politically motivated court cases.

The U.S. Supreme Court found in a 7-2 ruling that Texas (along with other states and individual petitioners) had no standing to bring the case against the ACA. Even the staunchly conservative Justice Thomas who has dissented in the two previous major challenges to the ACA could not find for standing for the plaintiffs.

I will continue to work for Medicaid expansion in Texas, as I have since I was a member of President Obama's State Legislators for Health Reform, which was a working group of 32 state legislators that helped develop the ACA and pass it through Congress.

As a reminder, President Biden's executive order to re-open the healthcare marketplace is still in effect until August 15th 2021. To sign up for insurance on the federal marketplace, log on to HealthCare.gov or call 1-800-318-2596.