Regarding The Register editorial today (11/17/2014) entitled “Obamacare foes are hoping for activist judges” Exactly the opposite is true. It is the Obamacare supporters who are hoping for activist judges to interpret the law differently than it was written. The letter of the law is clear. It states that only people who sign up for Obamacare through state run exchanges are eligible to get subsidies. Obama and his team created this threatening provision intentionally to pressure states to create their own exchanges. But more than 30 states, including Iowa, did not knuckle under to the pressure. The Supreme Court should uphold the law as written, not as Obamacare supporters wish or hope it was written. This is what happens when, as Nancy Pelosi famously said, “we need to pass this bill to see what is in it.”
Register editorial: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/2014/11/17/editorial-obamacare-foes-hoping-activist-judges/19154603/
Source video of Jonathan Gruber, Obamacare expert advisor, explaining the intentionally threatening provision: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBAHvX1WdWc
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