South Carolina Gov. Haley Tried to Deny Medicaid Expansion in Challenge Before Supreme Court

We are broadcasting from Charleston, South Carolina, as we turn now to look at the impact here of the the Supreme Court's decision Thursday to uphold a key provision of the Affordable Care Act, preserving the health insurance coverage of millions of people and handing President Obama a major victory. On Thursday, the court ruled 6 to 3 that Obamacare recipients can obtain tax subsidies for health insurance in states that use federal exchanges. Right-wing plaintiffs had argued the law's wording excluded some 7.5 million people in 34 states who get their insurance through federal exchanges, after their states declined to run exchanges of their own. For more, we are joined by Loreen Myerson, a representative of the South Carolina Progressive Network. She ran their Affordable Care Act navigator project.

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2015-06-26T13:21:00