A Small Blow to Obamacare

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ruled that federal Obamacare subsidies are only lawful for people who buy insurance through state exchanges and not the federal exchange. Only 14 states have established exchanges. However, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit just reached the opposite conclusion.

The important thing to note is that no federal court has any constitutional or philosophical problem with the idea of federal subsidies. Just like conservative Republicans.

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12:19 pm on July 23, 2014