The Supreme Court issued its much-awaited decision Thursday in King v. Burwell, a case that threatened to stop Obamacare in its tracks.
Even the most charitable interpretation of what the court did is to say it overstepped its authority and re-wrote the law to close a gaping hole created by sloppy drafting. A less generous interpretation is that the court decided to rescue the law by ignoring an ill-conceived clause included deliberately and explicitly to put pressure on states to create healthcare exchanges.
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