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New Yorker: SCOTUS Health Care Case Is Life Or Death

March 2, 2015

Thunder storm sky over the United States Supreme Court building in Washington DC.

In King v. Burwell, the Affordable Health Care Act lawsuit soon to be heard before the Supreme Court, the claim “borders on the frivolous” and the outcome could lead to thousands of unnecessary deaths, writes CNN legal analyst and New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin. The case rests on a few words in the massive bill that, according to plaintiffs, mean that people who bought health insurance through federal exchanges rather than state-run operations are not eligible for subsidies. Without those subsidies, many would lose their insurance, leading to higher insurance rates and putting health care out of reach for even more individuals. This lawsuit, Toobin says, is “an attempt to use what is at most a semantic infelicity to kill the law altogether.”

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