A ruling Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia eliminates the federal government’s ability to provide subsidies on federal insurance exchanges under ObamaCare.

Almost simultaneously, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, in Richmond, Va., issued a ruling that came to the opposite conclusion.

With two seemingly contradictory court decisions, the whole thing seems to be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Again.

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