Under our Constitution, it is irrelevant whether or not Congress will “fix” whatever situation obtains after a SCOTUS ruling. Have they not sworn to defend the Constitution? Above all else? How Congress might respond is not really their concern, since we have a separation of powers here. Or do we?
What I find even more onerous and infuriating is this “concern” about how any decision that ended the subsidies would hurt the 6 million policy holders who are getting the subsidies. Huh???? What about the tax payers who are now getting hosed by being forced to essentially pay for their fellow citizens’ health insurance? Why are the justices NOT concerned about millions of tax payers? When did this become their responsibility? And, further, where is the federal government getting the funds to pay all these subsidies for the federal exchanges? Have those funds been specifically voted and allocated by Congress? I think not, since the ACA was rammed through by the Dems to offer subsidies ONLY via exchanges created by the states.
These SCOTUS justices need to get their heads out of you know where.
Yes, the rest of us pony-ing up for other people's (more) expensive Obamacare is infuriating; however, I was confused by this reasoning for another reason:
The reason they are having this argument at the SCOTUS is because the bill is badly written. If the people pushing this monstrosity had wanted all people in all states to get a subsidy; why did they write this language into it? Why not clearly state that?
Well, they wanted the States to do this, not the Feds; but, (surprisingly) a lot of States opted out of it. So, now we are at the SCOTUS and they are also trying to figure out this very loose language.
The bill is badly written. It needs a stake thru it's heart, and then burn it.