Watchdog.org Podcast

Code Blue is Watchdog Radio’s weekly look at heath issues, ranging from the latest public health debates to small government views on health-care reform. Medicaid and Medicare are breaking the budgets of states and the federal government, but there are other options out there. Is Obamacare the best we can do? On this week's episode, hosts Jason Hart and Ben Yount discuss the upcoming Supreme Court ruling in the King v. Burwell case, which could effectively neuter a huge part of the Affordable Care Act by eliminating health insurance subsidies handed out through the federal exchange. It could be a very big deal. There are 34 states that rely on the federal exchange to provide health insurance subsidies to their residents, and many of them have passed laws that would block state-level exchanges.  States that have already formed state-level exchanges would be fine, but many of them are facing their own problems (like Hawaii, which recently ditched its own exchange after blowing millions on dollars on