In a 2 to 1 decision the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that more than half the country should not be receiving tax subsidies under Obacare. A ruling that could cripple the healthcare law if it is ultimately upheld.

By Sophie Novak of National Journal.

gryphonms wrote:

"by not setting up an exchange, the politicians of a state are costing state residents hundreds and millions and billions of dollars....That is really the ultimate threat, is, will people understand that, gee, if your governor doesn't set up an exchange, you're losing hundreds of millions of dollars of tax credits to be delivered to your citizens."

Jonathan Gruber via a youtube video uploaded on 01/10/2012 in a speech given at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco wrote:

What’s important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying 🇹🇴 your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.

Jonathan Gruber via a youtube video uploaded on 01/20/2012 wrote:

Jonathan Holmes Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught since 1992. He is also the director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he is a research associate. He is an associate editor of both the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics. In 2009 he was elected to the Executive Committee of the American Economic Association.

wikipedia wrote:

About the Author
Dr. Jonathan Gruber is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Health Care Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was a key architect of Massachusetts’s ambitious health reform effort and consulted extensively with the Obama administration and Congress during the development of the Affordable Care Act. The Washington Post called him “possibly the [Democratic] party’s most influential health-care expert.”

From Amazon.com regarding Health Care Reform: What It Is, Why It's Necessary, How It Works wrote:

There is another interesting component to this. If this does reach SCOTUS and they rule that the citizens in states with no exchange do not receive the tax subsidies will those citizens have to reimburse the government?

gryphonms wrote:

Probably not, but those in states w/o exchanges may have a cause of action against ther state.

rfenst wrote: