Here’s the key portion of Gruber’s comments : I think 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 to your citizens, you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that’s a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realise there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these Exchanges, and that they will do it. But you know, once again, the politics can get ugly around this. At issue in the Halbig case and others making their way through the federal court system is whether Congress authorised the federal government to give out subsidies. It’s a big deal, since 36 states’ healthcare exchanges run at least partly through the federal government. The theory presented by the challengers posits the federal government wanted to pressure states into setting up their own exchanges by refusing them subsidies if they did not. In the 2012 clip, Gruber seems to be suggesting Congress intended subsidies to run only through state exchanges.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 12:00:01 +0000
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