Conservatives Are Hoping These 10 Words Will Finally Destroy Obamacare

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http://www.businessinsider.com/halbig-obamacare-case-district-court-aca-subsidies-exchange-2014-7

"...through an Exchange established by the State under Section 1311."

Last week the Supreme Court weakened Obamacare's contraception mandate, but that was only a very minor setback for the laws.

However alive and well in the courts is a fresh and potentially far more damaging lawsuit — one that rivals 2012's challenge to the law's individual mandate in terms of its potential effect on Obamacare.

The case is aimed at federal insurance subsidies, a key mechanism of the President Barack Obama's signature law that have helped millions of lower-income Americans sign up for private insurance plans through the federal exchange. The challenge aims to block subsidies in states where insurance exchanges are handled by the federal government.

And any day now — perhaps as soon as Tuesday — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is expected to hand down a ruling in Halbig v. Burwell, setting in motion a chain of events that could again lead to the Supreme Court.



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[Triana]

1. Posted about that here (sunk like a rock!)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025188794

[MohRokTah]

2. The story is really just click bait.

The federal exchange is really a set of 36 state exchanges all run by the federal government.

The challenge has basically been laughed out of every court to date, and once the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit laughs it out of court, I suspect the SCOTUS will refuse to grant certiorari.

[Fred Sanders]

3. You are correct. And Roberts is not going to overturn a part of the law he upheld as a whole.

His is truly clutching at straws by the fascists that still refuse to accept the court decision and refuse to accept they lost the WH. Again and now forever.