Washington – A federal appeals court has delivered a serious setback to President Barack Obama’s health care law, potentially derailing subsidies for many low- and middle-income people who have bought policies.
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If upheld, the decision could mean premium increases for more than half of the 8 million Americans who purchased taxpayer-subsidized insurance under the law.
It affects consumers who purchased their coverage through the federal insurance marketplace – or exchange- that serves 36 states.
A three-judge panel in Washington ruled 2-1 that the law, as written, only allows insurance subsidies in states that have set up their own exchanges. That invalidated an Internal Revenue Service regulation that allowed subsidies in all 50 states.
It’s so sad, how much hope we all had for this “yes we can” administration, only to watch it as it crumbles like a house of cards. It should be Hashem’s will that the USA can be restored to full health during the next administration. No matter how impossible that seems right now, always remember Hashem can do anything, even undoing the work of the most incompetent administration and congress in the history of the world.