Justices Agree to Hear Challenge to Subsidies in Health Law
The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a new challenge to the Affordable Care Act. As is their custom, the justices gave no reasons.
The move imperils President Obama’s signature legislative achievement two years after it survived an earlier Supreme Court challenge by a single vote.
The case, King v. Burwell, No. 14-114, concerns tax subsidies that are central to the operation of the health care law. According to the challengers, those subsidies are not available in the states that have decided not to run the marketplaces for insurance coverage known as exchanges. Under the law, the federal government has stepped in to run exchanges in those states.
If the challengers are right, millions of people receiving subsidies would become ineligible for them, destabilizing and perhaps dooming the law.
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