SCRANTON TIMES TRIBUNE Editorial: …Many states with Republican-controlled governments, like Pennsylvania, declined to establish exchanges as part of opposition to the law and political opposition to President Obama.
In such cases, state residents instead used the federal exchange to obtain insurance and, if they qualified, federal subsidies to pay for it.
Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued an incredibly narrow ruling, by a 2-1 vote, holding that subsidies could be distributed only through state-run exchanges. So, residents in states like Pennsylvania would not be eligible for subsidies and would not be able to afford the insurance… (more)
