President Obama on Monday gave a stern warning that if the Supreme Court rules against the system of subsidies holding up Obamacare, it "would be hard to fix."
In the coming weeks, the Supreme Court could rule that only customers in state-run Obamacare marketplaces are eligible for federal subsidies. If the court does agree with the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell, it could make the health care coverage unaffordable for millions. The ruling could effectively upend the entire health care law, creating an even bigger rift between the mostly-blue states that have embraced aspects of Obamacare and the red states that haven't.
Even so, the White House has refused to put forward a "plan B" to lay out how it would respond to such a ruling. Asked why not, Mr. Obama effectively likened the health care law to Humpty Dumpty -- once it's broken, it's hard to put back together.
"I want to just make sure that everybody understands that you have a model that -- where all the pieces connect," he said during a press conference from Krün, Germany, where he's attending the G-7 summit.
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