{"id":21307,"date":"2014-08-14T20:35:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=21307"},"modified":"2014-08-14T20:35:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-15T00:35:12","slug":"indiana-jumps-on-the-halbig-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/21307\/indiana-jumps-on-the-halbig-bandwagon\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Jumps on the Halbig Bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Add Indiana to the list of states <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2014\/08\/13\/federal-court-hear-indianas-challenge-obamacare\/14026189\/\" target=\"_blank\">arguing that ObamaCare\u2019s subsidies can\u2019t be used on Healthcare.gov<\/a>, the federal exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is the same mounted by other states contesting the IRS\u2019s unilateral decision to go against the clear language of ObamaCare which makes subsidies available only on state-based exchanges, a restriction intended to induce states to shoulder the implementation costs for fear of angering residents by exposing them to ObamaCare\u2019s real costs.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge William T. Lawrence will decide whether Indiana\u2019s case has merit in October. Precedent from other circuits isn\u2019t all that helpful, since the D.C. Circuit upheld the statutory scheme while the Fourth Circuit sided with the IRS.<\/p>\n<p>The silver lining: Whatever Lawrence and the appellate circuit decide will further fragment ObamaCare\u2019s implementation, increasing the likelihood that the Supreme Court will weigh in.<\/p>\n<p>Whenever that happens, hopefully there will still be five votes to uphold the plain meaning of the law.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T: Indianapolis Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add Indiana to the list of states arguing that ObamaCare\u2019s subsidies can\u2019t be used on Healthcare.gov, the federal exchange. The challenge is the same mounted by other states contesting the IRS\u2019s unilateral decision to go against the clear language of ObamaCare which makes subsidies available only on state-based exchanges, a restriction intended to induce states [&hellip;]<\/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":[3007,3308,781,1829,35,2249,92],"class_list":["post-21307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-health","tag-indiana","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-subsidy","tag-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307","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=21307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21309,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21307\/revisions\/21309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}