Obamacare et la Cour suprême: Roberts et Kennedy feront-ils la différence?

Le juge Roberts a penché en faveur de L'Affordable care act la dernière fois et le juge Kennedy est reconnu comme un "swing vote" entre les juges plus conservateurs et les progressistes. Comme les opinions des autres juges de la Cour suprême semblent être fixées, on attend impatiemment l'interprétation de Roberts et Kennedy demain. Un test majeur pour le grand héritage politique du Président Obama.

 "The challengers — four Virginia residents who don’t want to abide by the mandate that Americans buy health insurance — argue that the Obama administration is illegally giving out Obamacare subsidies. They say a phrase in the text of the massive law — that subsidies go to “exchanges established by the state” — only allows the money to go to residents of the 16 states, plus Washington, D.C., that set up their own insurance exchanges. If the plaintiffs prevail, more than 7 million people now receiving the subsidies in 34 states would lose them.

The opponents’ lawyer, Michael A. Carvin of the law firm Jones Day, will argue that Congress all along intended to direct the subsidies through the state-run exchange as an incentive for the states to take on that task instead of leaving it to the federal government. The plaintiffs point to early versions of health reform legislation, one considered in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, that tied together subsidies and a state’s insurance reforms."

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/obamacare-supreme-court-case-john-roberts-anthony-kennedy-115673.html?hp=t4_r