Vox reports on Obama campaign donor , Harvard Professor Theda Skocpol:
The Congressional Budget Office wrote 68 reports about the Affordable Care Act during the session that Congress debated the law. Not one of them, a new analysis from Harvard University's Theda Skocpol, ever explored the possibility of limiting insurance subsidies to the state marketplaces after the law's full implementation.Professor Skocpol sure is committed to Barack Obama in increments of $281 at a time. She also doesn't refer to people on the left as "ultra-left" but... on the right they are ultra-right. What would Harvard be without "value-neutral" social science with scholars who levitate of class interests and self-interest?
The analysis could prove relevant in the pending Supreme Court case, King v. Burwell, where challengers argue that Congress meant for Obamacare to limit subsidies to state exchanges. If the justices agree, millions of Americans who purchased coverage through Healthcare.gov could lose billions in health-insurance subsidies.
The CBO's whole job is to game out how much different laws will cost. The agency typically looks at different possible scenarios. When the Supreme Court ruled, for example, that the Medicaid expansion was optional, it published new cost estimates for scenarios where some states either did or didn't opt out.
Skocpol points to the fact that CBO never considered a similar, alternate scenario where some states didn't build exchanges as evidence that Obamacare's drafters meant for all states to get subsidy money.
