King Backers: Letter Shows State Officials Had Concerns About Subsidies

Stakeholders who are hopeful the Supreme Court will rule IRS overstepped its boundaries in allowing exchange subsidies to flow through Healthcare.gov back up their view by pointing to a 2012 letter that a group of state health reform officials sent to HHS as proof that, despite what 23 state Attorneys General claim, there were serious questions surrounding HHS' authority to run an exchange. At least one of the officials who signed the letter, however, says it is being misinterpreted and...