Supreme Court agrees to hear ACA subsidy case

The Supreme Court today agreed to hear a case to decide whether federal insurance subsidies should be made available through the ACA’s federally facilitated exchange (Source: “Court to rule on health care subsidies,” SCOTUSBlog, Nov. 7, 2014). 

At issue is whether the ACA’s program of tax credits applies only in the consumer marketplaces set up by 16 states, and not at federally operated sites in 34 states, including Ohio.

The fate of those subsidies apparently will now depend upon how the Court interprets four words in the Affordable Care Act.  In setting up the subsidy scheme, Congress said it would apply to exchanges “established by the State.”