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Congressman Gerry Connolly issued this statement following the 6-3 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in King v. Burwell to uphold Affordable Care Act subsidies for eligible Americans in all states, including those like Virginia, which have refused to create state-run health insurance exchanges:

“Today’s 6-3 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholds the right of the federal government to provide subsidies for health insurance to millions of eligible lower-and-middle-income Americans in 34 states, including my own, where Republican legislators for purely political reasons have refused to create state exchanges.  This is great news and a victory for all Americans..

“Maybe this decisive victory for the Affordable Care Act will convince Republican legislators in Virginia and across the nation, who have repeatedly voted against the best interests of their constituents who cannot afford health insurance without tax credit subsidies, to do the right thing.

“The Court’s decision is a collective sigh of relief for millions of Virginians and Americans who would have lost their health insurance under the Affordable Care Act simply because they live in states where Republicans have blocked the creation of state health insurance exchanges.

“Now that Republican opponents of the ACA have been thwarted by the Supreme Court in their effort to kill health insurance subsidies for millions of Americans, maybe Republican legislators in Virginia and the 33 other states that have refused to create state exchanges will see the light and start accepting the billions of federal dollars they are rejecting in their futile effort to destroy the ACA.

“Just yesterday, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives cast votes to kill the ACA for the 60^th time since it became law.  Hopefully, in the wake of today’s Court decision, the House Majority and Republican legislatures across the nation will devote their attention to helping American families secure adequate health care and reduce health care costs, rather than trying to take health insurance away from millions of men, women, and children.”