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Sarah Cliff, you report on healthcare here at Fox. It's a brand new year with a kind of

brand new government. How's Obamacare doing? Well, Obamacare is starting this year like it starts

many years. I'm working its way through another legal challenge that might go to the Supreme Court.

Okay, so what are the big things we need to know about the challenges to Obamacare right now?

I'd say it's kind of threefold and the first is something important that happened at the very end of

2018. Sweeping decision from a federal judge striking down all of Obamacare.

Republican governors and attorneys general from 20 states challenging the individual mandate.

The judge, a George W. Bush appointee ruling the requirement of coverage unconstitutional.

President Trump calling it a great ruling for the country, but what happens now for the millions

who rely on Obamacare for health insurance and for covering pre-existing conditions?

Now, I want to put this in context that the law is still standing. You know, the Texas judge cannot

totally overturn a major federal law. So if anyone is panicked about their Obamacare coverage,

it is still there. But he issued this very, very sweeping ruling that said as a result of some

actions, Congress took in 2017. The law now cannot stand. So we have this huge ruling against

the Affordable Care Act. The second thing to know is that 17 attorneys general, all Democrats are

now appealing this decision up to the Fifth Circuit. Okay. And the third thing to know is Congress is

now getting involved. Because it's a new Congress. New Congress. Controls by Democrats. And the

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