Now, I don’t want to pick on Cohn. And on this point, I’ll admit to bias. Cohn is as nice of a person as you’ll ever meet in journalism and his writing has been instrumental in building my own understanding of liberal health care policy.
But I think the Gruber and Cohn revelations should mark a turning point in discussions on Halbig. Skeptics of the legal challenge should show a bit more humility and debate the issue like adults, instead of resorting to name-calling and accusations of dishonesty and stupidity in an effort to delegitimize the opposition.
There is plenty of room for a reasonable disagreement about the significance of the phrase “established by a state.” There’s no need to resort to juvenile attacks and act as if people are being completely insane for placing weight on the actual text of a law in a legal dispute over statutory interpretation.
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