A Small Blow to Obamacare
July 23, 2014
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.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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