EXPLAINER: Obamacare’s King vs. Burwell victory (wonkish)

The government has defeated yet another legal challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in a decisive 6-3 Supreme Court ruling this morning in the case of King vs. Burwell.

The plaintiffs in King targeted insurance subsidies for Americans who enrolled through Obamacare’s federally-run exchanges, relying on a gibberish legal pretext and …