Subsidies through Healthcare.gov may be illegal.

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SEC. 1304. RELATED DEFINITIONS. 
(a) DEFINITIONS RELATING TO MARKETS 
(d) STATE.—In this title, the term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 
50 States and the District of Columbia.

Not coincidentally, the territories don't get handouts either.

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I thought right wingers hated activist judges?

Anyway, this ruling is obviously a joke. It's not going to stand.

What activist judges? These good judges upheld the written law.

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Krazey, ACA is far from the first Federal program in which the unincorporated territories are treated differently than the states and DC.

Of course it isn't. The territories are not states. Neither is the federal government.

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Well yes, there is now a circuit split but the 4th circuit one is unlikely to change position whereas there's likely to be an en banc review in the DC circuit. That, in my view, will likely lead to a reversal and no split. Stay tuned.

There are several other circuits with the same case, including the 7th and 10th circuits.

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Hilarious. You can't make this up.

Link

Watch Obamacare Architect Jonathan Gruber Admit in 2012 That Subsidies Were Limited to State-Run Exchanges (Updated With Another Admission)

What’s important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill. So you’re essentially saying [to] your citizens you’re going to pay all the taxes to help all the other states in the country. I hope that that's a blatant enough political reality that states will get their act together and realize there are billions of dollars at stake here in setting up these exchanges. But, you know, once again the politics can get ugly around this.