The Washington Times reports that the list of Republican plans “to deal with the potential fallout” from King v. Burwell “is growing longer, although Republicans have yet to coalesce around a game plan with just six weeks before the court is expected to rule.” Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) unveiled a “revamped version” of his ACA replacement bill last week. The proposal would repeal the health law in its entirety and offer tax credits to people to purchase insurance on their own. Another plan, from Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), would allow states three ways to respond to a Supreme Court ruling against the ACA’s subsidies: “States could set up exchanges under Obamacare, do nothing and lose federal support or – and this is what the senator wants – opt into a third path titled the Patient Freedom Act.”

The Hill reported in a similar article that Republican lawmakers “are all over the map about what to do about the millions of people who could lose” subsidies if the Supreme Court rules against the ACA next month. Although Republicans agree that “they need a plan if the high court strikes down a subsidies next month,” they do “not agree about how to help people who’d lose access to healthcare – and even whether to help them at all.” Currently, “there are more than half a dozen plans floating around, with varying degrees of details.”

Jeffrey R. Ungvary President