Hopefully, ACA ruling will not stand

A federal-court decision declaring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional could have serious consequences for solo entrepreneurs like me.

As of 2013, nearly one in three self-employed adults were uninsured. By 2016, however, the uninsured rate for those individuals had fallen to 19.2 percent, a drop of 35 percent following the implementation of the ACA.

But the ACA is about more than statistics - it's about giving people the chance to shape their own economic destiny. Since the law makes it so much easier for the self-employed to obtain their own health insurance coverage, many more aspiring entrepreneurs have escaped "job lock" and been willing to go out on their own to start new ventures.

If the ACA is no longer an option for this group, however, many will be forced to close their businesses and go back to working for someone else just so they can have health insurance.

For the good of the U.S. economy and American entrepreneurship, the constitutionality of the ACA must be upheld. I hope this terrible court decision is eventually overturned.

Jessica Jolly

Evanston