Health Chief Burwell Hints At Planning For ObamaCare Decision
Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell on Wednesday hinted at the administration’s planning for the looming ObamaCare Supreme Court case.
In previous testimony before Congress, Burwell had repeatedly declined to discuss any administration plan for King v. Burwell, which could invalidate subsidies that help 6.4 million people afford insurance in roughly three dozen states using the law's federal exchange.
But Burwell said Wednesday before the House Ways and Means Committee that the administration would do “everything we can” to deal with the fallout from a ruling against the law.
“We’ll do everything we can, we’re working to make sure we are ready to communicate to the states and do everything we can,” Burwell said.
Still, Burwell emphasized that most of the solution would lie with Congress and the states, because only they could restore the subsidies if the Supreme Court ruled that they cannot be distributed through the federal exchange.
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