Well, that didn't last long—roughly two hours after a D.C. circuit court panel
ruled that Obamacare does not allow subsidies in federally-run exchanges, a panel in the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, located in Virginia, has unanimously
ruled that Obamacare does allow such subsidies.
If you're keeping score at home, that means three courts have ruled that Obamacare does allow subsidies in federally-run exchanges and one has not.
9:40 AM PT: I love this—shortly before the new ruling came out, House Speaker John Boehner celebrated the day's first ruling with a statement saying:
Today’s ruling is also further proof that President Obama’s health care law is completely unworkable. It cannot be fixed.
Nice try, John. Better luck next time.
9:58 AM PT: From the opinion:
What they may not do is rely on our help to deny to millions of Americans desperately - needed health insurance through a tortured, nonsensical construction of a federal statute whose manifest purpose, as revealed by the wholeness and coherence of its text and structure, could not be more clear.