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In the days leading up to the Saturday deadline to enroll for 2019 coverage under the Affordable Care Act, former president Barack Obama said he was hopeful that he wouldn’t need to shoot jump shots or hang out with comedian Zach Galifianakis to convince people to sign up this year, even with fewer people choosing a plan on Healthcare.gov.

But Obama’s optimism about the ACA during the Trump administration would be challenged when a federal judge in Texas ruled the entire law unconstitutional on Friday night. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor’s ruling on a lawsuit filed by a coalition of Republican state officials has the potential to cause massive disruption across the health-care system if the opinion stands, The Washington Post’s Amy Goldstein reported.

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Obama responded on Saturday by saying in a Facebook post that “Republicans will never stop trying to undo” the health-care law and urging people to continue to get covered under the ACA as the decision makes its way through the courts in what could be a prolonged appeals process. As of early Monday, his Facebook post has received more than 28,000 reactions, and has been liked more than 72,000 times since he also shared it on Twitter.