GOP Senator Sends Most Confounding Obamacare Tweet of All Time

Guh?

Six million people risk losing their health care subsidies, yet @POTUS continues to deny that Obamacare is bad for the American people.

— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) June 8, 2015

Those six million people risk losing plans provided through Obamacare, because of a conservative Supreme Court challenge that threatens federal subsidies, that have to be provided federally because GOP governors didn’t establish state exchanges. This is like saying the Bill of Rights threatens your civil liberties because they could be challenged in courts.

Thune (R-SD) went on to tweet:

A "one-sentence" Band-Aid can't fix flawed Obamacare, riddled with #BrokenPromises from skyrocketing costs to failing state exchanges.

— Senator John Thune (@SenJohnThune) June 8, 2015

Actually, a one-sentence fix from Congress could in fact salvage the subsidies that would be denied under an unfavorable SCOTUS ruling in King v Burwell, given that the case is over the ambiguities in one sentence of the law.

As you were.

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