Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled that health insurance subsidies in 36 states were illegal because the text of Obamacare limited subsidies to those states that set up their own exchanges. Prior posts provided some background on the case and the legal reasoning behind the decision. Here’s a rundown of seven potential legal, political, legislative and policy effects of the ruling.

1. It has no impact

Two out of three judges in an appeals court panel may have ruled against the Obama administration in Halbig v. Burwell, but that doesn’t mean that the case will have an immediate tangible impact. First, the Obama administration will request a review of the case by the rest of the D.C. Circuit, which was recently packed with President Obama’s appointees, thanks to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid‘s deployment of the nuclear option. And depending on what happens there, the U.S. Supreme Court still has to agree to hear the case, and then make its own decision.