RWJF: $36 Billion In Lost Subsidies In 2016 If Government Loses ‘Halbig’

If the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rules against the Obama administration in Halbig v. Burwell , the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation says, the result would be a loss of roughly $36 billion in federal subsidies in 2016 because residents of federally facilitated exchange states would no longer be able to get premium tax credits to afford their insurance. Stakeholders have been anxiously awaiting a ruling on the Halbig case, which could come as soon as Friday...