To the Editor:
The Supreme Court has read some sloppy legislation in a way most beneficial to millions of Americans now covered by medical insurance with the help of a federal subsidy. Many politicians will also benefit as a result.
Since the passage of the Affordable Health Care Act, Republican opponents of the Obama administration have made the act Public Enemy No. 1. However, as affordable health care has begun to settle in, its political value as a target has increasingly waned.
Had the Supreme Court negated the federal subsidy system, Republican candidates would have had to answer for the mayhem that was sure to follow. The court’s sane reading of the act has removed that political burden.
More important, the nation should now be able to move forward with insured health care as a permanent part of the lives of millions of Americans previously left by the side of the road. There will, I hope, be improvements to come, but the debate should now forever turn from health care as a privilege to health care as an entitlement and how best to maintain it.
BRUCE NEUMAN
Sag Harbor, N.Y.
Note from KBJ: According to the Pew Research Center, 53% of Americans disapprove of ObamaCare, while 45% approve. Good luck to those politicians who support it!
