A federal appeals court in New Orleans is weighing whether to continue blocking enforcement of a judge's ruling limiting coverage requirements under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

The Supreme Court’s latest rejection of a Republican effort to dismantle “Obamacare” is another sign that the GOP must look beyond repealing that law if it wants to hone the nation’s health care problems into a winning political issue.

ROANOKE, Va. – Millions of Virginians could be left in health care limbo as the Affordable Care Act is being debated in the U.S. Supreme Court. He said 3.4 million Virginians could lose the current insurance protections for people with pre-existing conditions if the health care is repealed. “An insurance company could say we are going to charge you three times what we charge other people for health insurance or we are not going to cover you at all," Delzingaro said. According to the Congressional Budget Office, about 12% of people under 65 were not enrolled in a health insurance plan last year. “I don’t think President Trump could really describe to you what the Affordable Care Act does but he does know President Obama is the one who did it," Kaine said.

As many as one in two Americans has some kind of illness or condition that was, at one time, considered a pre-existing condition by insurance companies before Obamacare. Here are the top 10 most common conditions for Americans, as analyzed by CNN. Hide Caption

In what's become known as "Obamacare," the president is applauded after signing his health care reform law into effect on March 30, 2010. The messy politics of the measure drew legal challenges, inspired the tea party insurgence in the 2010 midterm elections, and led the House of Representatives to hold multiple unsuccessful votes on repealing the legislation. Hide Caption