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Washington, DC – U.S. Representative Brian Babin (TX-36) issued the following statement today in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Obama Administration’s re-write of the law to hand out tens of billions of dollars in Obamacare subsidies to those who were ineligible:

“The Supreme Court’s decisions to ignore the letter of the law and essentially re-write it to accommodate the Obama Administration is an outrageous usurpation of legislative authority.  I agree whole heartedly with Justice Scalia’s determination that the Court’s actions are ‘absurd’ and that ‘words no longer have meaning’ under this ruling.  With the Court’s decision, more Americans will be forced into an expensive and dictatorial government-run health care system that has put government bureaucrats between patients and their doctor, driven up the cost of medical care at record levels, denied millions of Americans access to their local health care provider, and cut the incomes of millions of Americans.  

“With Texans facing another double digit increase in health care premiums under Obamacare next year, I remain more committed than ever to fighting for a full and complete repeal of Obamacare, and ridding the nation of this disastrous law. As I have said before, we must dismantle this law one rotten tooth at a time so that health care freedom can be restored to the American people.”

To view Justice Scalia’s dissent in King v. Burwell, please click here.