The Hill Overnight Healthcare: Pennsylvania is first to offer ObamaCare backup plan
The Hill
Pennsylvania became the first state to announce a plan to save people's ObamaCare subsidies if the Supreme Court rules against the federal government sometime this month.
The Obama administration is now reviewing an application from Pennsylvania's health department to set up its own healthcare exchange in case the Supreme Court strikes down the healthcare law's subsidies.
Gov. Tom Wolf proposed using the federal government's "existing infrastructure to provide certain services" such as its website and call center. It remains unclear what other costs, if any, the state would have when creating an exchange.
Creating a state-based exchange in Pennsylvania would save subsidies for nearly 350,000 people in the state with ObamaCare, which Wolf called "the responsible thing to do."
Still, the governor could face a tough fight from the state's Republican-controlled legislature. Republican state leaders could face pressure from their counterparts in Congress not to create their own exchange, which the GOP argues will "resuscitate" the law.
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