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Speaking during a press conference today in Germany as part of the G7 Summit, President Obama ripped the Supreme Court for taking up King v. Burwell, the case questioning the legality of Obamacare subsidies given to people living in states without state based exchanges.

 

Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber, infamous for saying the law passed thanks to the "stupidity of the American voter," has repeatedly said people living in states that do not have their own exchanges cannot receive tax subsidies for Obamacare. He's argued multiple times the law was set up to force states into setting up exchanges. 

 

"I think what's important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don't set up an exchange that means your citizens don't get their tax credits. But your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you're essentially saying to your citizens, you're going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges and that they'll do it, but you know once again the politics can get ugly around this," Gruber said. 

 

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