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March 23, 2015 at 07:20 AM
An analyst at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has rejected one popular idea for dealing with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the Obama administration in King vs. Burwell (Case Number 14-114).
The plaintiffs in the case say the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) lets only an exchange established by a state offer the PPACA premium tax credit subsidy to exchange plan buyers.
An exchange established by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) cannot offer the premium tax credit, the plaintiffs say.
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Some PPACA supporters have suggested that HHS could get around a defeat at the Supreme Court by simply having as many states as possible pass bills hiring HHS to manage their exchanges.
Those PPACA supporters say the states in that situation, would be establishing the exchanges, and that HHS would simply be the administrator.
Tom Miller, the AEI analysts, say a state has to do more than authorize HHS to provide exchange service to have a “state-established exchange.”
Miller outlined his views in November for the Health Care Reform Regulatory Alternatives Working Group, an arm of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The working group included a summary of Miller’s presentation in a batch of draft meeting notes on the agenda for approval at the NAIC’s upcoming spring meeting in Phoenix.
