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Supreme Court's healthcare law ruling worries 34 states

By TribLive.com / The Washington Post  
   March 02, 2015

Officials in several Republican states that balked at participating in President Obama's health care initiative are revisiting the issue amid mounting panic over a possible Supreme Court decision that would revoke federal insurance subsidies for millions of Americans. The discussions taking place in state capitals across the country are part of a flurry of planning and lobbying by officials, insurance and hospital executives and health care advocates to blunt the possible impact of a court ruling. The justices hear arguments about the matter this week. If the court sides with the plaintiffs, who argue that subsidies are not allowed in the 34 states that opted against setting up their own insurance marketplaces, the ruling could spark an immediate crisis.

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