Plaintiffs in the landmark King v. Burwell subsidies case called the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against them a “tragedy for the rule of law in our country.”
“We are deeply disappointed with today’s Supreme Court decision because it hurts Americans like us in two ways. First, it threatens something that our democracy is based on — the rule of law. And second, it allows the IRS to keep offering nationwide subsidies even though the law that Congress passed says otherwise,” according to the statement from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free-market think tank that bankrolled the case.
The statement was attributed to four Virginia residents, David King, Brenda Levy, Rose Luck and Douglas Hurst, who brought the lawsuit challenging Obamacare. The case centered on whether or not the federal government had the authority to dole out insurance subsidies to 36 states that didn’t set up their own exchanges.
The think tank added that the court allowed the IRS to rewrite a law enacted by Congress in a ruling that “undercuts the Constitution’s separation of powers.”
They now are calling on Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
