The Supreme Court ruled today that despite some confusing language in the Affordable Care Act, the law can provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people obtain health insurance. King v. Burwell questioned the law’s statement that subsidies are only available through “an exchange established by the state.“ Because 36 states never built their own exchanges, the federal government did so for them, which the plaintiffs argued violated that language. The court voted 6-3 that the wording doesn’t matter. “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not destroy them,“ Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the majority decision. Meanwhile, dissenting opinion writer Antonin Scalia, always one to turn a colorful phrase, wrote, “We should start calling this law SCOTUScare“…
Supreme Court Allows Nationwide Health Care Subsidies – The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/26/us/supreme-court-affordable-care-act-health-subsidies.html?smid=tw-nytimes
Obamacare lives on after Supreme Court ruling – CNNPolitics.com: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/25/politics/supreme-court-ruling-obamacare/