4 Worst Ways Halbig Truthers Have Spun Obamacare Architect’s Comments

The Federalist ^ | July 25, 2014 | Mollie Hemingway

[kiryandil]

This week saw a major victory for attorneys who’ve argued that, according to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it’s illegal to give federal subsidies if insurance plans aren’t part of a state-based Obamacare exchange. The D.C. Circuit Court ruled that the legislation does not authorize such subsidies. Another court gave a somewhat muddled and mixed ruling on the matter that said such subsidies are ok, basically saying that Congress could have or would have been ok with it. The good news, for the attorneys fighting this battle, is that the mixed rulings make it more likely that they’ll be able to argue their case at the Supreme Court.

In any case, when that first “Halbig” ruling came down, progressive fans of Obamacare continued to argue that it was insane to think that this was a clear reading of the legislation. And they were doing all right advancing this argument, or trying to, until late Thursday. That’s when video came out showing Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber making exactly the same argument made by the attorneys fighting this issue. The comments were from back when Obamacare proponents were trying to force states to set up exchanges and before most states declined to, to the shock of a deeply out-of-touch Congress. Whoopsie! Kind of hard to call your opponents crazy when they’re merely quoting the law …. and agreeing with the guy who wrote the law. At least they agreed with him in 2012. In recent days, he’d backtracked on his claim and joined in calling this interpretation crazypants. Again, most likely because fans of the behemoth legislation are trying to salvage it even though states didn’t share Nancy Pelosi’s naive enthusiasm for it.

Now, in the hours since that video release, we’ve had a few updates. Gruber went ...

[kiryandil]

Mollie Hemingway absolutely destroys the "Halbig Truthers" - Obama's Big Media enablers.

Go to the link to see the Lefty media humiliated.

http://thefederalist.com/2014/07/25/4-worst-ways-halbig-truthers-have-spun-obamacare-architects-comments/

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Go to the link to see the Lefty media humiliated.

To be humiliated, one must have humility.

[Intolerant in NJ]

The good news, for the attorneys fighting this battle, is that the mixed rulings make it more likely that they’ll be able to argue their case at the Supreme Court...and one would think part of that argument would be inclusion of the remarks of Professor Gruber stating specifically that the subsidies were to go only to state exchanges - as an original intent of the bill....