Why Obamacare risks falling into a ‘death spiral’

Washington Post ^ | November 10, 2014 | Dana Milbank

[QT3.14]

So it turns out there is an Obamacare death panel after all.

It has nine members and it operates out of a marble building directly across the street from the Capitol.

When the Supreme Court on Friday announced that it would take up another challenge to the Affordable Care Act in March, it delivered the threat of two mortal blows to the signature achievement of the Obama presidency.

First, it raised the possibility that the justices, who narrowly spared the law in 2012, will in June come out with a new ruling that would dismantle the law on different grounds. But even if the justices make no such ruling, the very act of taking up the challenge to the law will itself undermine the law. The justices announced their decision just a week before the open-enrollment period for 2015 begins — and the looming possibility that the high court will strike down the law will probably deter those who are considering signing up for its coverage.

[Revel]

Even if the supreme court followed the law and ruled against the subsidies there is no way that congress is going to claw back those that have already been given. MY guess on that would be that they will either “Fix” the law permanently(I would not put it past even the republicans) or at the very least they will legislate the Non-Clawback of subsidies already given. Not just Obama, but congress as well is responsible for the lawless application of the law. After all- Congress funded the subsidies.

[Jed Eckert]

there is no such thing as a death spiral for Obamacare or any federal program for that matter, it’s just a bigger deficit, which Obama and the democrats just don’t care about. It means absolutely nothing to them

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!"
-Ronald Reagan