U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell was in Wisconsin this week, forecasting victory in another U.S. Supreme Court case involving a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.
In King v. Burwell, the justices are deciding whether people who live in states like Wisconsin — without a state-run health care marketplace — can still get subsidies to help pay for health insurance.
Burwell predicts the subsidies will continue.
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“A big part of why we believe that is the idea that tax credits and subsidies would be given to folks in New York but not folks here, because there isn’t a state-based marketplace, we don’t believe that is what is intended in law,” she said.
On the other hand, if the Supreme Court rules against Burwell, she said people without subsidies could become uninsured, and people remaining in health insurance pools would see rising rates.
About 180,000 people in Wisconsin have used the federal marketplace, and received on average about $300 per month to pay for health insurance.
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