Saturday, March 7, 2015

Obamacare and the Supreme Court: Will 10 Million lose their insurance?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/06/obamacare-supreme-court_n_6816158.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000013


The future of Obamacare could be decided on Friday, when nine justices of the Supreme Court meet in private.
The outcome of their deliberations is anybody's guess. If you support the law, that should worry you -- and make you angry.

As a court spokesperson confirmed, the justices are following their custom Friday by holding a private conference. The usual purpose of these meetings is to discuss cases that the court just heard on Wednesday, so that would mean talking about King v. Burwell -- the dispute over whether the federal government may continue to provide subsidized health insurance to people living in two-thirds of the states. The justices will sit around a table, without even their clerks present. The chief justice will speak first, and then each associate justice will have a turn, going by seniority. Then, the justices will indicate how they intend to vote, again in the same order.
Their decisions are not always final. It takes weeks for justices to write their opinions and, very occasionally, a justice will change his or her mind in that process. But more often than not, the result of the Friday conference dictates the final outcome of the case.

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