Posted on 06/09/2015 5:00:09 AM PDT by maggief
Republicans in Congress are worried the Supreme Court will hand them a major headache this month if it rules against the federal health insurance exchanges in more than 30 states, ending subsidies for millions of people.
While the Affordable Care Act remains broadly unpopular, two new polls show a majority of Americans don’t want to do away with its subsidies, a core component of the law.
This poses a conundrum for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio). They are under pressure from colleagues up for reelection in swing states and districts to extend the subsidies, at least temporarily, if the court strikes them down. But doing so would risk a backlash from the conservative base. The Supreme Court is expected to hand down its decision in King v. Burwell, which could strip 6.4 million people of health insurance subsidies, in late June.
States that would be hardest hit by a ruling against the law include the Senate battlegrounds of Illinois, North Carolina, Ohio and Wisconsin.
“The politics of the King vs. Burwell case are extremely treacherous and tricky for Republicans because if the subsidies are thrown out by the court, Republicans are in the position of having to create a fix that would be seen as a problem by their most conservative supporters,” said John Ullyot, a GOP strategist and former senior Senate aide.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Obamacare is like metastatic cancer. Chemotherapy is unpleasant, but if it rids you of cancer, it is more than worth it. But the worst thing you can do with cancer is ignore it and hope it gets better. It doesn’t.
Let us hope beyond hope that the SCOTUS rules against Obamacare. If it does then there is a chance that conservatives can block this McConnell-Boehner nightmare, and let the Leviathan beast die.
The headline encapsulates EVERYTHING we need to know about the GOP Establishment and WHY they must be replaced by true conservatives.
If it hasn't happened already it will never happen.
It isn’t the GOP who might Win, it’s the Constitution that might win. “Might”...
John Boehner bought healthcare stock (or were given him) in Dec 2009 and has made millions.
He does not want obamacare to end.
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