House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) on Tuesday said a federal appeals court decision that banned Obamacare subsidies for residents of the 36 states served by the federal exchange proves the health care law is “completely unworkable.”
Boehner noted in a statement that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling in Halbig v. Burwell is the second time in a month that a court has ruled against a provision of Obamacare. The Supreme Court had ruled at the end of June that “closely held” for-profit corporations did not have to comply with the health care law’s birth control mandate.
“Today’s ruling is also further proof that President Obama’s health care law is completely unworkable. It cannot be fixed,” Boehner said in the statement. “The American people recognize that ObamaCare is hurting our economy and making it harder for small businesses to hire, and that’s why Republicans remain committed to repealing the law and replacing it with solutions that will lower health care costs and protect American jobs.”
Boehner is also planning to sue the Obama administration for overreach in unilaterally delaying Obamacare’s employer mandate by one year.
