Is the Individual Mandate to Buy Health Insurance in the Affordable Care Act Still Constitutional After the Penalty for Noncompliance Was Removed?

The article focuses on constitutional challenge to the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012) and ruled that the provision did not command anyone to buy insurance. It mentions U.S. Congress modified the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) to set the monetary penalty for individuals who did not have health insurance to zero. It also mentions Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 reduced the amount of the alternative tax to zero.