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If the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) individual mandate provision is deemed unconstitutional, which parts – if any – of the law can survive without it? That was the first question the Supreme Court considered during the third and final day of oral argument on the constitutionality of the health care law. Members of the Court also debated whether the ACA’s Medicaid expansion – which is expected to add an additional 16 million individuals into the healthcare fold – is an unlawful exercise of Congressional spending power. Continue reading this entry at Littler's Washington DC Employment Law Update.