U.S. Supreme Court rejected attempt to dismantle Obamacare, which provides health coverage to some 20 million people

The Supreme Court Thursday rejected a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, preserving insurance coverage for millions of Americans.

The judges left intact the entirety of the Affordable Care Act (called Obamacare) ruling that Texas, other Republican-led states, and two people did not have the right to bring their claims in federal court.

It’s the third time the Supreme Court comes to the rescue the most important piece of the legacy of former President Barack Obama (2009-2017), a health care law that has covered more than 20 million people in the United States and that Republicans have been trying to repeal for a long time decade.

The main provisions of the law include the protection of people with pre-existing diseases, a series of free preventive services and the expansion of the Medicaid program, which insures people with the lowest incomes, including those in low-paying jobs or who do not have health insurance.

The legal obligation to have health insurance or to pay a fine is also maintained. Congress made this provision irrelevant in 2017 when it reduced the fine to zero.

The decision of the highest court, taken by a majority of seven of its nine judges, represents a posterior setback for former President Donald Trump, who tried by all means to suppress the law.

(With information from AP and EFE)