John Roberts will vote for federal subsidizing of ObamaCare. I have zero doubt about this.
It’s about federal money:
If ObamaCare state exchanges are already funded by federal money channeled through those state exchanges, it will be easy for Roberts to say that was the intent. (And, it would be harder to take him to task over it.)
If ObamaCare state exchanges are funded by state money, then Roberts will find that the federal government should be funding all subsidies despite what the law said, and that because of the federal taxes that are levied. This will be a harder place to arrive, but Roberts will somehow do it, given his finding that ObamaCare is funded by ‘taxes’ and not ‘mandates’.
Federal injustices like John Roberts regularly decided to invent a whole intent separate from that which was clearly written.
If congress has Intended something other than what was written congress would have written that instead of what they did. To infer any other intent is a lairs argument.
In this particular case Congressional democrats clearly passed this as a kind of Opt out clause. If Robert’s claims about the law’s unworkable are to have any merit they would have to recognize its clear opt-out provision.