Pema Levy
Newsweek
12/17/2013
Obamacare may have its problems, including more bugs than you can find in the cornfields of Nebraska, but its legal worries were meant to end after the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate, the heart of the Affordable Care Act.
Now, as the technologists charged with making healthcare.gov work report progress, lawyers are re-entering the fray. A little-heard of challenge currently making its way through the court system may represent opponents’ last best hope of, as they are fond of saying, driving a stake through the heart of the law.
It all started in 2011, when Jonathan H. Adler, a conservative law professor at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, shot an email to his friend Michael Cannon, a health policy expert at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington, D.C. Adler thought he had spotted an error in Obamacare that could unravel a significant portion of the law.
At issue are the federal subsidies for individuals buying insurance in their state’s health care exchanges. The law stipulates that those subsidies should be allotted for plans purchased “through an Exchange established by the State under Section 1311” (italics added), a reference to the section of the law that establishes state-run exchanges…
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At the last minute, and just before jetting off to Hawaii for a luxurious 17-day Vacation, President Obama has unilaterally moved to change his ObamaCare Law once again. This time, Obama is granting an exemption to insurers to sell bare-bones, catastrophic Health Plans …
Just a helpful Christmas news dump as Jeeves was packing King Obama’s golf wear for his luxurious 17-day, $4 million Hawaiian vacation. He’s not rewriting the law, he’s just relaxing it. What a guy…
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Another useful idiot.
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FLOTUS: Make a discussion about Obamacare your kids’ ‘Christmas treat’
At Weasel Zippers:
- White House Continues To Dismantle Obamacare, “Temporarily” Suspend Individual Mandate For People Who Had Their Plans Cancelled…
- Poll: 58% of Uninsured Haven’t Even Looked At The Obamacare Exchanges Yet…
