SCOTUS: Second Obamacare Challenge Gets Its Court Date

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Matt Vespa

Dec 22, 2014

 

Well, the day has arrived! On March 4, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on King v. Burwell, which will determine the fate of Obamacare. The King case was decided around the same time as Halbig v. Burwell, which argued similar points over health care subsidies for exchanges “established by the state.”

 

The Fourth Circuit of Appeals sided with the government, while the D.C. Court of Appeals sided with Halbig, which Guy mentioned would increase the likelihood that this case will head to the Supreme Court (via WSJ):

 

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So, mark your calendars fellow health care wonks, journalists, bloggers, and political junkies; the ACA is heading back to court.

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Monday round-up

By Amy Howe on Feb 2, 2015 at 5:41 am

Coverage and commentary continue to focus on King v. Burwell, the case scheduled for oral argument next month in which the Court will consider whether individuals who purchase their health insurance on an exchange established by the federal government are eligible for tax subsidies for those purchases. At Balkinization, Timothy Jost discusses the amicus briefs filed in support of the federal government in the case, while in the New Republic Cristin Farias looks at the “clues” that “point to Scalia as a decisive vote in whether federal subsidies for all Americans survive.” In The Huffington Post, Doug Kendall contends that “one of the key assertions made by the central Supreme Court advocates for King has been called false by the very senator relied upon by these advocates,” but at the National Review’s Bench Memos blogCarrie Severino counters that “the petitioners in the case don’t think their case turns on Ben Nelson’s subjective reading of the law, much less on an after-the-fact interpretation of his previous position laid out in a letter written to aid his fellow Democrats’ litigation position.” And in The Incidental Economist, Nicholas Bagley argues that, if the Court invalidates the subsidies, “any suggestion Congress will just clean up the mess should be taken with a huge grain of salt.”

http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/02/monday-round-up-245/#more-224592

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Friday round-up

By Amy Howe on Feb 27, 2015 at 6:22 am

All eyes are on next week’s oral arguments in King v. Burwell, the challenge to the availability of tax subsidies for individuals who purchase their health insurance on a marketplace created by the federal government. I previewed the case earlier this week in Plain English; other coverage and commentary come from David Savage of the Los Angeles Times (registration may be required), Julie Appleby of Kaiser Health News (via Philly.com), Paul Barrett ofBloomberg, Elizabeth Wydra in an op-ed for The Washington Post, Joel Ario, Michael Kolber, and Deborah Bachrach at The Commonwealth Fund Blog, David Nather and Jennifer Haberkorn of Politico Pro, Sarah Kliff of Vox, Larry Levitt and Gary Claxton at the Kaiser Family Foundation, Eric Segall at ACSblog, Jonathan Keim at the National Review Online’sBench Memos, and Douglas McSwain at ACSblog.

http://www.scotusblog.com/2015/02/friday-round-up-259/