Obama Administration Loses Key Obamacare Case
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May 13, 2016 |
| Good morning from Washington, where the House's legal challenge to Obamacare could depend on election results. Melissa Quinn reports. How could the Republican-led Senate spend more than President Obama sought? Philip Wegmann has the lowdown. A small-town judge faces removal because her faith tells her not to perform gay marriages. Ken McIntyre has the facts. Plus: Rob Bluey finds out why a constitutional scholar is so pessimistic. Hans von Spakovksy and Elizabeth Slattery analyze a new court ruling against the Affordable Care Act. |
AnalysisObama Administration Loses Key Obamacare CaseThe case centers on the Obama administration's payment of subsidies to insurance providers for providing cost-sharing reductions to certain policyholders. There's just one problem: Congress explicitly refused to appropriate funds for these subsidies. |
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NewsHow November's Elections Could Impact the House's Obamacare LawsuitRepublicans mounted the lawsuit two years ago and charged that President Obama was going outside the powers granted to him under the Constitution by spending money Congress hadn't appropriated. |
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