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Staffs, and i talked to them before this surprisingly became a piece of litigation that people were watching none of them said anything about the states that didnt set up an exchange losing their subsidies. this is pure myth. >> this has always read to me like what we call a drafting error. it happens all the time in this kind of legislation. its fixed all the time in what they call a technical corrections bill. something the congress is now incapable of passing. >> its not really a drafting err...

States that didnt set up an exchange losing their subsidies. this is pure myth. >> this has always read to me like what we call a drafting error. it happens all the time in this kind of legislation. its fixed all the time in what they call a technical corrections bill. something the congress is now incapable of passing. >> its not really a drafting error. >> for years they did technical corrections. >> you can argue it lacks clarity, that they could have said in the state instead of by the state...

That. the chief justice of the really say a lot. basically that means you were going to have to wait until the end of june and then we will come running out of the pennant and let you know. andrea: this court ruling to determine the entire ruling of the obamacare lot and its very clear. this is not a drafting error, the lot was deliberate we set up this way as part of a deal that they cutlet senator ben nelson to give the states more state implementation and it wasnt a looksee. >> thats right, w...

Even when certain words dont make sense or are too vague to be understood on their plain meaning. theres a lot of law and precedent in this area. whats surprising about this case is it has gone up this high and people are talking about cutting off potential funding for millions of people based on what appears to many to be a drafting error. >> so it could very well what happens tomorrow what starts tomorrow could have a very real impact on a lot of people. >> it could. supreme court granted, too...

Goes rogue, heats going to be -- >> hes gone rogue. >> i want to say quickly, emac makes the best points. the only question that matters, it doesnt matter if he thinks the american people are stupid. we knew that. what justice roberts needs to see is the footage of gruber at this hearing and republicans should play it saying that this bill was drafted intentionally, ask him in his name is jonathan gruber, remind him hes under oath and say did you do it that way? >> n front of the supreme court, ...

One court said it was ambiguous and thus well defer to the irs. the other court said its not unambiguous. subsidies will only be available to people who get their insurance through the state exchanges. thats not ambiguous at all. the claim of the government is well it was a drafting error and what we really intend was that it should be for k. with well andy mccarthy pointed out even if you accept the defense of the government that its a drafting error, a drafting error in a bill is still part of...

>> thats right. in the plain statutory language of the law says that subsidies are only available on exchanges that are set up by a state, not on the federally run exchanges that are in some 30-odd states. now, the obama administration says that was just a drafting error, that they intended to offer the subsidies on the federal exchanges and theyve gone ahead and done this. because the subsidies trigger things like the employer mandate and other taxes, several businesses have sued claiming that ...

From a legal stand point, the statute apparently 2500 pages long, everybody sarcastically saying nobody read the whole thing, which i agree with, says that you can get a subsidy only for a state created exchange. but it says you can have a federally created exchange, but doesnt go on to say you get the subsidy. so the argument, real simple, greg -- >> wait a minute, is a judge saying i am reading the strict language of the statute, or is he going to say legislative intent was otherwise. >> total...

Wasser-schultz, the dnc chair, said they shouldnt consider obama care to be sacred and the unions are coming down on them, plus, "usa today" reported on a family glitch. if youre a family and realize you all of a sudden only applies the employee, not to the family, your children could be without insurance. >> a complete drafting error. never supposed to be that way. they werent going to deny these kids this health care, bob. we shall overcome. but the legislative council made a drafting error. t...

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