[caption id=”attachment_138384″ align=”aligncenter” width=”3835″] Security guards the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday June 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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The Supreme Court saved federal Obamacare subsidies Thursday, warding off yet another threat to the unpopular law.
In a 6-3 ruling written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court sided with the Obama administration and upheld Obamacare’s insurance subsidies nationwide.
King v. Burwell evaluated whether it is illegal for the government to provide subsidies in the 34 states that have not set up their own exchanges and are using HealthCare.gov, the federal health insurance marketplace, instead.
If the court had ruled the other way, more than 6 million people could have been impacted.
President Obama is sure to tout the ruling as a win, though he has said multiple times that the court should never have taken up the case.
King v. Burwell was the last major legal challenge in the court system with the ability to tear apart a core piece of the Affordable Care Act, the National Journal noted.
