(Bloomberg View) — A Wall Street Journal editorial Friday predicted what would happen if Republicans won the King v. Burwell case, which the Supreme Court is expected to decide any week now. The Journal said that if Obamacare subsidies disappeared in states with (mostly) Republican governors, there could be another "friendly-fire massacre" as people blamed the party for the collapse of the individual insurance market.
On the other hand, Jeffrey Toobin, in the New Yorker, predicted "the political pain will fall almost exclusively on the president and his party."
Who has the better case? Remembering, of course, that the court could decide against the King plaintiffs.
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