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This detailed brief summarizes the likely key effects of alternative Supreme Court decisions regarding the Affordable Care Act. We consider scenarios in which the law is upheld, and alternatively that the individual mandate, the individual mandate plus the insurance reforms, and the entire law are overturned. We examine the potential effects on the uninsured, spending, implementation, effects on states and other factors. (Also available:
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