InsuranceNewsNet interviewed Manatt's Joel Ario, a managing director with Manatt Health, for an article on one of the Supreme Court justices that is considered to be a swing vote on the latest Affordable Care Act challenge.
InsuranceNewsNet reports that Justice Anthony Kennedy could possibly be leaning toward keeping the subsidies on the federal exchange.
Ario said that he thinks Kennedy "clearly gets how damaging it would be to the state marketplaces if the subsidies were to go away."
Ario added that he was most impressed by Kennedy's comments that the elimination of federal subsidies "would lead to total deterioration in the marketplaces."
"That tells me that he understands the crippling effect it would have on the state marketplaces," Ario said.