Is It the Beginning of the End for Obamacare?

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sharply divided Wednesday over President Barack Obama's controversial healthcare law.

Justices argued bitterly during a hearing over a case that could sink the landmark law.

The sticking point: the legality of tax subsidies that allow millions of Americans in 37 states to pay for healthcare under Obamacare.

When Congress passed the law in 2010, it wrote that those subsidies would only be available to people participating in health insurance exchanges "established by the state."

But only 13 states have established such exchanges. The rest rely on the system set up by the federal government, the HealthCare.gov system.

If the high court rules the tax subsidies to people in all but those 13 states are illegal, it could make health care unaffordable for some 5 to 8 million more Americans and send Obamacare into a death spiral.

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