Federal judge rules against ACA subsidies

A federal judge in Oklahoma 9/30/14 ruled that Affordable Care Act federal subsidies cannot be issued to residents living in states that do not run their own exchanges.
This marks the second ruling against ACA subsidies--in the July case of Halbig v. Burwell, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that subsidies are illegal on federal exchanges. A few hours later on that same day, in the case of King v. Burwell, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia, ruled that state- and federal-run exchanges can provide subsidies.
Judge Ronald A. White, who issued the ruling, said that federal subsidies do not align with the healthcare reform law.
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