No Panic as Obamacare Subsidies Seem Safe for Future
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Americans are unlikely to lose Obamacare subsidies any time soon, at least, and not in most states.
A three-judge panel of a federal appeals court in Washington ruled July 22 that subsidies to help people pay insurance premiums are illegal in 36 states that use the federal healthcare.gov system. The ruling, in a case brought by political opponents of the health law, rattled advocates who painted doomsday scenarios of broken insurance markets across the country.