{"id":19293,"date":"2013-11-01T16:51:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19293"},"modified":"2013-11-01T16:51:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T20:51:25","slug":"more-legal-woes-for-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19293\/more-legal-woes-for-obamacare\/","title":{"rendered":"More Legal Woes for Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though Obamacare\u2019s individual mandate barely survived the Supreme Court last year, there\u2019s no guarantee that some of the law\u2019s other elements will be so lucky.<\/p>\n

Last week, Tim explained that litigation challenging the health law\u2019s federal subsidy structure<\/a> is proceeding toward the Court. If the Court\u2019s four consistent conservatives and swinger Anthony Kennedy stay true to the text, citizens in 34 states won\u2019t be eligible for subsidies that make Obamacare-approved insurance plans (somewhat) more affordable.<\/p>\n

Another series of cases challenge the controversial \u2018HHS mandate\u2019<\/a> that requires all non-houses of worship to provide employees with access to contraceptives and abortion-related services; despite the objecting employer\u2019s religious beliefs. Appellate level decisions are split between the government and private business, meaning the Court is very likely to decide the issue as a way to provide continuity throughout the nation.<\/p>\n

If recent trends hold, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in both lines of litigation sometime next spring, releasing a high-profile opinion in mid-summer.<\/p>\n

As long as Obamacare is the law of the land, there will be no end to the headaches it creates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though Obamacare\u2019s individual mandate barely survived the Supreme Court last year, there\u2019s no guarantee that some of the law\u2019s other elements will be so lucky. Last week, Tim explained that litigation challenging the health law\u2019s federal subsidy structure is proceeding toward the Court. If the Court\u2019s four consistent conservatives and swinger Anthony Kennedy stay true […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3308,186,1829,485,1009,35,92],"class_list":["post-19293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-health","tag-hhs","tag-insurance","tag-lawsuit","tag-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19293"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19299,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19293\/revisions\/19299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}