The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s insurance marketplaces gave lawyers of all political positions the opportunity to say, I told you so. And then, that’s it, now what?
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Companies will still have questions for their lawyers, from tax policy to insurance regulation, to insight into the private exchanges industry. And government relations practices, in particular, may now turn to working on bills regarding various taxes related to the law—including the controversial medical device tax and other “inartful drafting” passages in the law, as the Supreme Court majority called them, according to Nancy Taylor, co-chair of the health and FDA practice at Greenberg Traurig.