Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said Thursday that the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in favor of upholding nationwide tax subsidies for Obamacare points the need to elect a Republican president in 2016.
"Today’s ruling makes it clear that if we want to fix our broken healthcare system, then we will need to elect a Republican president with proven ideas and real solutions that will help American families," Priebus said in a statement,
reports Talking Points Memo.
Priebus also spoke out against Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton in the wake of the decision.
"Hillary Clinton supports big government mandates and expanding the government’s reach into our healthcare system, maneuvers that have made our healthcare system worse off," Priebus said. "What you will not hear from Democrats today is any information on how to make healthcare more affordable at a time when premiums are getting more expensive."
David McIntosh, president of the Club for Growth, called the court's ruling "a crushing blow to average Americans."
"With health insurance premiums skyrocketing as a result of Obamacare mandates, today’s decision is nothing less than a crushing blow to average Americans," McIntosh said in a statement.
"The Supreme Court has validated a wealth distribution scheme that will continue to drive up the price of coverage, pushing it toward unaffordability for working Americans," he said.
"So long as Obamacare's mandates and relentless regulations are left in place, there is no good outcome," he added.
"The American people believe both subsidies and mandates are wrong, so it’s now up to Congress to use reconciliation to repeal Obamacare, and Congress should continue to do so until there is a president who is willing to sign that repeal," McIntosh said.
The Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote that
Obamacare does not limit subsidies to states that set up their own healthcare exchanges, which was challenged in King v. Burwell.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion for the majority, said that "Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them."
Judge
Andrew Napolitano said on Fox News that Roberts had "resorted to a nearly unheard of construction in order to save the statute."
"This is a weird and unpredictable outcome," Napolitano said, adding that the chief justice "will continue to undermine his own credibility as a fair-minded jurist, because he has reached to bizarre and odd contortions in order to save this statute twice."
Nina Owcharenko, a health policy expert at The Heritage Foundation, said that the Supreme Court decision "is a disappointment for the rule of law and for the states that have fought to keep some Obamacare’s flawed policies out of their states."
She said that the Obama administration shouldn't think that "it is now smooth sailing for Obamacare. Nothing could be further from the truth."
That's because, she said, "Despite the decision, the problems with Obamacare are real and not getting better. The law’s flawed foundation continues to make Obamacare unworkable, unaffordable and unpopular."
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