Grammar Lesson From GOP English Teachers

A three-judge panel from the D.C. District court recently ruled 2 to 1 (2 R's to 1 D) that ACA/Obamacare customers are entitled to premium subsidies only via state-run health insurance exchanges.  According to this pair of idiotically ideological judges, all who buy coverage through federally-run exchanges (36 states, including Ohio) do not qualify for any premium subsidies.  That's because the section of the aw dealing with subsidy calculation refers to exchanges "established by the state."  No mention of "federal" exchanges.

Never mind that the word "state" is frequently used to mean the entire government (e.g., separation of church and state), this ruling is slicing the baloney ridiculously thin.  Do these two judges really believe that their interpretation is what our lawmakers intended?  Would they really remove millions of people from the ranks of the insured just to teach Congress a grammar lesson?

Remember that Republicans are the party which pretends the yargle-bargle language of the 2nd Amendment is a model of perfect clarity in protecting my individual right to arm bears or whatever.  These dopes are not English teachers and they have no business criticizing sloppy sentence construction, in law or anywhere else.

The panel's ruling is B.S. and it will not stand.