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Study: 9.6M could lose Obamacare if subsidy challenge succeeds

By The Hill  
   January 09, 2015

Roughly 9.6 million people could lose medical coverage on ObamaCare's exchanges if the Supreme Court rules that subsidies distributed by the federal marketplaces are invalid, according to a new study. Researchers with the RAND Corp., a nonpartisan research group, said such a ruling could cause "significant instability" and "threaten the viability of the individual health insurance market" in the 34 states where the federal government manages the exchange. Premiums on the individual market would also rise by 47 percent, or $1,610 annually, for a 40-year-old non-smoker with a silver plan, the study said.

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