WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly five years after President Barack Obama signed his health care law, the Supreme Court gets to decide its fate yet again.

This time it's not just the White House that's anxious.

Republican lawmakers and governors won't escape the political fallout if the justices strike down insurance subsidies worth billions to consumers in more than 30 states. The law's opponents argue that the federal government cannot subsidize coverage for consumers unless they live in a state that has set up its own insurance market. But in most Republican-led states, the federal government runs the markets.

Without financial assistance, millions of consumers would lose coverage.

In 2012, the court narrowly upheld the law's insurance mandate, allowing implementation to proceed.

The case will be argued March 4.

(Story by: Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, The Associated Press)

 

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