The End Of ObamaCare?
"While the media have largely focused on the Hobby Lobby challenge, a few blocks
away, the D.C. Court of Appeals was hearing another argument about ObamaCare—one
that, if passed, could well have the effect of ending this law as we know it.
And it has liberals running scared."
(Western Journalism) In the piece "Forget Hobby Lobby. The Bigger Legal Threat to ObamaCare Still Has Life," Alec Macgillis writes for the New Republic, “If the contraception challenge succeeds, it just means that that one sliver of ObamaCare is struck down. If this other challenge succeeds, both sides agree that it would blow up the entire law.”
The argument for the plaintiffs is as follows: In order to provide the 60th vote, which was necessary to get the bill through the Senate, Ben Nelson, the then-Democratic senator from Nebraska, insisted on a clause that said that federal subsidies could only go to people who signed up on exchanges set up by the states. The purpose was to incentivize states to actually set up exchanges.
Read The Full Story
(Western Journalism) In the piece "Forget Hobby Lobby. The Bigger Legal Threat to ObamaCare Still Has Life," Alec Macgillis writes for the New Republic, “If the contraception challenge succeeds, it just means that that one sliver of ObamaCare is struck down. If this other challenge succeeds, both sides agree that it would blow up the entire law.”
The argument for the plaintiffs is as follows: In order to provide the 60th vote, which was necessary to get the bill through the Senate, Ben Nelson, the then-Democratic senator from Nebraska, insisted on a clause that said that federal subsidies could only go to people who signed up on exchanges set up by the states. The purpose was to incentivize states to actually set up exchanges.
Read The Full Story