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February 24, 2015

Health law challenge centers on four words

  • Independent studies by the Urban Institute and Rand Corp. estimate that 8 million people would lose insurance if the court rules for the challengers.
    • By MARK SHERMAN
    Associated Press

    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court next week hears a challenge to President Barack Obama's health care overhaul that hinges on just four words in the massive law that seeks to dramatically reduce the ranks of the uninsured. The argument threatens subsidies that help make insurance affordable to consumers in about three dozen states.

    The lawsuit focuses on the health insurance marketplaces, or exchanges, that have been set up to allow people to find coverage if they don't get insurance through their jobs or the government. The challengers argue that the health law provides subsidies only to people who get their insurance through an exchange “established by the state.” But most states have not established their own marketplaces and instead rely on the federal healthcare.gov.


     
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