{"id":51615,"date":"2015-06-25T09:01:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/scotus-upholds-federal-subsidies-for-the-affordable-care-act-huzzah.html"},"modified":"2015-06-25T09:01:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:01:29","slug":"scotus-upholds-federal-subsidies-for-the-affordable-care-act-huzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/scotus-upholds-federal-subsidies-for-the-affordable-care-act-huzzah.html","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS upholds federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (huzzah)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The King v Burwell<\/i> case was goofy to begin with, and there were plenty of indicators that the GOP was more than a bit concerned that it might actually "win" this one and then be stuck with fixing the problem. Regardless, the Supreme Court upheld the law today, saying that subsidies were clearly meant to be available both in states that had their own exchange and states that had opted to use the federal exchange.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nAffordable Care Act survives Supreme Court challenge<\/a><\/span>
\nJustices agreed with the Obama administration that government subsidies should be available to all.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The King v Burwell case was goofy to begin with, and there were plenty of indicators that the GOP was more than a bit concerned that it might actually "win" this one and then be stuck with fixing the problem. Regardless, the Supreme Court upheld the law today, saying that subsidies were clearly meant to … Continue reading “SCOTUS upholds federal subsidies for the Affordable Care Act (huzzah)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49756,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/03\/05\/looking-at-the-arguments-in-king-v-burwell.html","url_meta":{"origin":51615,"position":0},"title":"Looking at the arguments in "King v. Burwell"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 5-Mar-15 6:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"King v. 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