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Nearly 3 years after the Supreme Court refrained from killing Obamacare, the court is now considering a second legal challenge. This case is King v. Burwell. The case is whether the Affordable Care Act provides subsidies to everyone in the country who qualifies based on income level whether they get their insurance through a state-run exchange or an exchange run by the federal government.
This applies to AP Gov because we will discuss the power of judicial review later on in class.
If the prosecution wins this case, then those who signed up via federal exchanges (rather than state exchanges) will lose their subsidies. Most likely, these people will no longer be able to afford their insurance. I think, in this case, the inability for those who signed up via federal exchanges to recieve subsidies would be extremely detrimental to the success of the bill in helping to allow everyone easy access to affordable and quality insurance.
Anthony, I agree with your blog and thought it was very well written. I also believe that if those people could no longer get their insurance, it would be very bad.
ReplyDeleteI agree with what you are saying but, if the prosecution wins then there is a clear flaw in the act and it will need to be addressed immediately.
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