What Are The States Doing To Prepare For King v. Burwell? (Part 3)

Editor’s note: This is the third and final part of a Heath Affairs Blog series of case studies examining how states are preparing for the possibility that the Supreme Court will, in its King v. Burwell decision later this month, prohibit premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act in states using the federally facilitated Marketplace. Part one of the series laid out some overall themes from the case studies and examined Florida’s preparations for the King decision. Part two focused on Michigan and New Hampshire. Part three, below, looks at North Carolina and Utah and offers some concluding thoughts. The research described in this series was supported by the Commonwealth Fund. North Carolina To date, more than a half-million people in North Carolina have purchased health insurance through HealthCare.gov. About 90 percent of those enrollees receive tax credits to help them afford coverage. The ACA has nonetheless proven enormously controversial in North Carolina. Indeed, the political blowback from its 2010 enactment contributed to a transformative political reorientation. For the entire twentieth century, Democrats had controlled at least one of two houses of the General Assembly, and usually both. In the fall elections of 2010, however, Republicans swept both houses of the legislature. Two years later, Pat McCrory’s election as governor allowed Republicans to secure unified control of North Carolina government for the first time in more than a hundred year...
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