King v. Burwell: The Facts and Implications

Alliance for Health Reform & Ascension Health

Friday Jun 5, 2015 12:00 pm to 01:30 pm EDT

Senate Hart Office Building, Room 902

Hart Senate Office Bldg

Washington, DC 20002

United States

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This briefing will tell you what you need to know about a major Supreme Court challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Court is expected to make a decision in June, and a ruling for the King petitioners could mean that individuals will no longer be able to receive subsidies to purchase health insurance through the federal marketplace. The federal government is operating insurance marketplaces in more than 30 states. Currently, subsidies to buy health insurance are available to individuals with incomes between 100 percent and 400 percent of the federal poverty level (i.e., those with annual incomes between $11,770 and $47,080).

If the challenge is successful, how will policymakers in Congress and at the state level respond? Will states rush to switch from federal to state marketplaces? What are the challenges? How many people would lose subsidies?

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Simon Lazarus

Senior Counsel, Constitutional Accountability Center

Before joining Constitutional Accountability Center, Si was Public Policy Counsel to the National Senior Citizen Law Center. Si served as Associate Director of President Jimmy Carter’s White House Domestic Policy Staff (1977-81), as a partner in Powell, Goldstein, Frazer, and Murphy LLP (1981-2002), and as Senior Counsel to Sidley Austin LLP (2002-2006). He is a Trustee of the Center for Law and Social Policy and a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, The American Prospect, Roll Call, Slate, The Hill, Newsweek/ Daily Beast, Politico, The New Republic, the Huffington Post, as well as law reviews. read more

Michael Cannon

Director of Health Policy Studies, CATO Intitution

Michael F. Cannon is the Cato Institute’s director of health policy studies. Cannon has been described as “an influential health-care wonk” (Washington Post), “ObamaCare’s single most relentless antagonist” (The New Republic), and “the man who could bring down ObamaCare” (Vox.com). He has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, Fox News Channel, and NPR. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal; the New York Times; USA Today; the Los Angeles Times; the New York Post; the Chicago Tribune; the Chicago Sun-Times; the San Francisco Chronicle; SCOTUSBlog; Huffington Post; Forum for Health Economics & Policy; Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine; Harvard Health Policy Review; the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics; and the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. read more

Dan Crippen

Executive Director, National Governor's Association

Dan Crippen serves as the executive director of the National Governors Association (NGA). As executive director, he works with governors to identify and prioritize the most pressing issues facing states and oversees the day-to-day operations of the association. Founded in 1908, NGA is the only bipartisan organization of the nation’s governors. NGA promotes visionary state leadership, shares best practices and speaks with a collective voice on national policy. read more

Robert Blendon

Senior Associate Dean for Policy Translation and Leadership Development, Richard L. Menschel Professor of Public Health and Professor of Health Policy and Political Analysis, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health

Education Sc.D., 1969, The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health Research read more

Edward Howard, JD

Executive Vice President, The Alliance for Health Reform

Ed has headed up the Alliance since its formation in 1991. Previously, he served as general counsel for the Pepper Commission, a bipartisan congressional panel convened to plan for providing health coverage to all Americans. Before that, he directed public policy at the Villers Foundation and at the National Council on the Aging, and served as general counsel to the House Select Committee on Aging. He holds a juris doctor degree from Harvard University. read more

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