ACA clear on allowing subsidies, Obama administration tells high court

Modern Healthcare: The nation's healthcare reform law is clear in allowing Americans in all states to get insurance premium tax credits as Congress intended, the Obama administration argues in its main brief filed with the Supreme Court in the widely watched King v. Burwell (PDF) case.

“I think it's a very powerful brief,” said Tim Jost, a law professor at Washington and Lee University and supporter of the law. “I think what the government's brief does is to say this case is about the text of the statute, but the entire text of the statute, not just four words.”

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