A recent Kaiser Health Tracking Poll found that a majority of the public favors congressional action if the Supreme Court decides subsidies under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are only available to people in states with state-run marketplaces.
The Supreme Court is set to hear King v. Burwell in March. The case will decide whether the law was meant to provide subsidies solely for states with state-run marketplaces or whether subsidies should given to eligible people in all states, according to The Washington Post.
The poll shows that nearly two-thirds of the public say Congress should pass law to ensure residents in all states can be eligible for subsidies to purchase health insurance if the Supreme Court rules subsidies are only available in states with state-run marketplaces. A majority of Democrats (82 percent) and a majority of Independents (63 percent) indicated they would support Congressional action, while 40 percent of Republicans said Congress should pass a law.
Over half (59 percent) of people living in the federal and partnership marketplace states said they would support their state creating its own marketplace should the Supreme Court rule to only allow subsidies in states that established their own health insurance exchanges, according to the poll.
Additionally, the poll found that 34 percent of adults in states with the federal or partnership marketplaces know that their state uses the federal marketplace, while 39 percent thinks their state operates its own exchange and another 28 percent don’t know. However, 63 percent of people in states operating their own exchange "are aware that theirs is a state-run marketplace, while about 17 percent think their state uses the marketplace operated by the federal government, and 19 percent say they don’t know."
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