| The view from the intellectual left of yesterday's events. |
[AtlanticMagazine] On Tuesday a federal judge denied a request from the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit aiming to block health care subsidies in states not running their own healthcare exchange sites. Put another way, if the plaintiffs in Halbig v. Sebelius win this case, low- and middle-income individuals in 34 states won't get subsidized health care. The only good news for people expecting those subsidies is that the judge, U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman, decided not to block the subsidies while the case moves forward.
| Of course, they'll only get those subsidies -- assuming the subsidy calculator was putting out correct numbers the day they registered, and they're really eligible -- if they manage to get properly registered on the federal website by the deadline. No mulligans if the website is not actually working properly at both ends by then. |
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