[DoodleDawg]

There are already outlines of such ideas emerging among Republicans. Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse has proposed, in the event the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies in states without health care exchanges, that Republicans offer a bill that would extend those subsidies for another 18 months, so Americans would not lose their health insurance. This would in effect leave the future of the ACA to the next president.

If the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies as unconstitutional then how can Congress pass a law extending those unconstitutional subsidies for another 18 months?

[SoCal Pubbie]

Because a new law would be passed to allow the subsidies. The existing law does not, but Obama is handing them out anyway.

[semimojo]

If the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies as unconstitutional then how can Congress pass a law extending those unconstitutional subsidies for another 18 months?

I don't think the King decision will turn on constitutional grounds. Looks like statutory interpretation to me.

[Hardens Hollow]

“This would in effect leave the future of the ACA to the next president.

If the Supreme Court strikes down the subsidies as unconstitutional then how can Congress pass a law extending those unconstitutional subsidies for another 18 months?”

All the more reason we need Cruz.

Yeah, seems like the twilight zone to extend something that is unconstitutional! Obviously laws and the Constitution don’t matter much to either party.