King V Burwell Case Summary

Context of the Case: King v. Burwell, 576 U.S (2015), was a judgment made by the United States Supreme Court, explaining the provisions of the ACA (Affordable Care Act and Patient Protection). The decision of the Court was upheld and confirmed, as consistent and well aligned with the statute, the money of premium tax credits to supporting the persons in all the states, both those with exchanges directly established by the state, and those oppositely made and implemented by the Department of Human Services and Health. The Supreme Court of United States made a decision unanimously in the case of King v. Burwell, which was delivered in detail on June 26th, 2015. The court got the evidence that subsidies, which are under the ACA can be delivered for insurance of health, purchased through the exchanges that are established and run by the federal government, despite the law restricting and discouraging such kind of subsidies to insurance purchased through the exchanges made by state government. The petitioners had fought and challenged that the language of the statute (which was plain) gave eligibility and support …show more content…
On November 7th, 2014, the Supreme Court of the United Sates under the guidance and judgment of the Judges, granted and issued a writ in the appeal of plaintiff of the 4th Circuit ruling. The decision of granting the writ was very unusual and unexpected. It was believed and thought that the Supreme Court of the United States would not issue any order, given the capacity of the circuit split, rather waiting for further orders from the lower courts before analysing and discussing the issue. Assistant professor of the University of Michigan Law School; Nicholas Bagley called this ruling to give certiorari as showing that "four justices likely to think—or at least have tendency to think—that King was decided