The United States Supreme Court today ruled 6-3 to uphold
nationwide health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act. Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice
Anthony Kennedy joined their liberal colleagues on the Court to stave off
another major challenge to the law.
“NFIB took no position on this case,” said Karen Harned, Executive Director of the
NFIB Small Business Legal Center. “We
remain, however, deeply disappointed in the Affordable Care Act. The central defect in the law is that it was
never designed to make health insurance more affordable for everyone, as its
supporters, including the President, promised.
“It was designed to subsidize health insurance for some Americans
at the expense of others,” she continued.
“Local business owners remain among many groups of Americans for whom
the law is a failure.”
NFIB was the lead plaintiff in the first major case against
the law. NFIB research shows that for a large
majority of small business owners, healthcare premiums continue to rise.
“The Affordable Care Act doesn’t solve the health insurance crisis
for most Americans, including small business owners, for whom the cost of
insurance was too high before the law was passed,” said Harned. “For most of our members that problem has
gotten worse.”
