Today's Miami Herald, in an article worth reading in full, reports that
[w]hen Florida racked up impressive enrollment numbers in 2014 for
insurance plans offered under the Affordable Care Act, some healthcare
analysts were surprised.
In 2015, the Sunshine State did it
again, surpassing enrollment projections and beating out much-larger
California and even Texas, a state more populous, more uninsured and
with similar Republican opposition to the law.
Florida is one of those states, however, that did not establish its own insurance exchange, and so people have been purchasing their ACA insurance through a federal exchange. That means that if the Supreme Court in King v. Burwell rules that federal subsidies are only to be paid to state-established exchanges and not to a federal exchange, then there will be a lot of unhappy people in this state.
It would be too much to hope that the Republicans would have some legislation ready to fix Obamacare in this respect, some legislation that the President would sign (or clearly should sign, if the President refuses to cooperate - I'm thinking that the Republicans might hire that Iranian negotiator to help - not our negotiator, Iran's negotiator). It would be good to have this effort well underway before the Supreme Court rules, taking the Court off the spot on this one. Then Congress can go to work on reforming the ACA in other respects. (Forget about abolition. Just forget about it.) In 2016 the Republicans may pay the price for failure to "save" the ACA.
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