On the other hand, you smarmy POS, you don't have to have gone much past third grade to read the word "state." And the Affordable Care Act specifically says that only exchanges run by states are allowed to offer subsidies to its citizens.
Obama and his minions are in the impossible position of claiming that a law didn't mean exactly what it says. It's the "You knew what we meant" argument, which must be the one Obama learned as a Constitutional professor.
I am not a lawyer, but I've studied a great deal of contract law and have been a plaintiff in two major lawsuits. One of the first things you learn in contract law is that a contract means what the parties say that it means, not what one of them intended it to mean. That is, if there is no ambiguity in the language, "the court will not look beyond the four corners of the contract."
That bit about the subsidies only being applicable to insurance purchase on a state exchange — brought to you by Sen. Harry Reid’s office as a late addition to the bill.
So they really, really can’t say that this was not the intent of the Law, else why would they have felt the need to add specific language?
What is amazing to me is that anyone with a 9th grade education could read the constitution and see that about 90% of what the federal government does is not an enumerated power. It has taken two centuries of people with “fancy legal degrees” to twist the plain language of our founding document into the gordian knot we have today.