Human Event, by Lawson Bader,
Score one for Obamacare. Last week, a federal court struck
down one of the major legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act. Washington,
D.C. District judge Paul Friedman, ruling in Halbig v. Sebelius,
upheld an IRS regulation that extended the law’s insurance premium subsidies
and employer mandate to the 36 “refusenik” states—those which had decided not
to set up their own health insurance exchanges. Under the Obamacare
legislation, subsidies were meant for users of state exchanges. But now, people
in those states who sign up for health insurance on the federal exchange can get subsidies.
This was disappointing to those of us who thought the court
should strike down the subsidies. But this game isn’t over. A similar case is
pending in Virginia ,
where a decision is expected any day, and two states have filed similar legal
challenges as well
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