Great reply and well made points.
I agree that the demorats tried to be a bit too cute by half in imagining the governors would not deny their citizens Obamacare state exchanges. Rather than writing an explicit bill, they couldn’t help but resort to their default mode of trickery and deceit by entrapping Republican governors into Obamacare coverage.
It was fun to watch Chrissie Mathews agonize as to why his own party would put a poison pill in their own legislation. And then he posited that it must have been just a typo instead of acknowledging the deviousness of his fellow demorats.
An editorial in today’s WSJ indicates the possibility that King v. Burwell - a 4th Circuit case which the government won - might actually get the issue before SCOTUS quicker. Because as the loser, the plaintiff can appeal to SCOTUS directly - rather than waiting for the government to win an appeal to an en blanc panel at the subordinate level, as is happening in the case which started this thread.