ALEC's New Obamacare Obstruction Plan Won't Work
DYLAN SCOTT JANUARY 6, 2014, 6:00 AM EST8689
Obamacare's opponents are running out of options to stop the law. The Supreme Court upheld it in the summer of 2012. President Obama was re-elected a few months later. The congressional GOP's strategy of shutting down the federal government to de-fund the law proved a disaster.
That might help explain why the conservative movement's latest tactics seem a little more desperate -- and, according to experts, equally unlikely to succeed.
Heading into the 2014 legislative session, the American Legislative Exchange Council is pushing new model legislation that aims to undermine the federal health care reform law. The only problem is: It's probably illegal.
Here's what the bill says: If an insurance company accepts tax subsidies that trigger Obamacare's employer mandate -- in other words, if an employee at a company with more than 50 employees goes onto an Obamacare exchange to purchase insurance and gets financial help through the law -- then that insurer would be prohibited from continuing to do business in that state.
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