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TexasBushwhacker

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6. Conveniently extending subsidies

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Wed Jun 10, 2015, 08:02 AM

Jun 2015

until 2017, AFTER THE ELECTION. Because cutting subsidies in 2016 would be catastrophic for them.I bet their shittin' bricks that the SCOTUS might actually rule against the subsidies, because the states that didn't set up their own exchanges are primarily red states.

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