CAP: $340 Billion Cost Would Limit Congressional Response To King

By Amy Lotven / January 29, 2015 at 8:19 PM
The Center for American Progress (CAP) on Thursday (Jan. 29) threw cold water on the idea that Congress would take legislative action if the Supreme Court rules against the administration in King v. Burwell , noting that the Congressional Budget Office would have to score the impact of a decision invalidating federal subsides accessed through Healthcare.gov. The Urban Institute has already run an estimate and found that it would cost $340 billion over 10 years, which CAP views as an...


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