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ARTICLE | Politics & Policy

DOJ supports ruling to strike down ACA, including biosimilars provisions

March 26, 2019 3:20 PM UTC

The FDA's biosimilar pathway would be swept away if the Trump administration's decision to back a court ruling results in striking down the entirety of the Affordable Care Act.

In a letter to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice said the court should affirm a December district court ruling which found that when Congress eliminated the ACA's individual mandate in 2017, it rendered the entire law as an unconstitutional overreach...