Marco Rubio: Obamacare 'Ultimately Will Fall Apart'

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., pointed to two conflicting federal appeals court rulings over subsidies in President Barack Obamas federal health-care law and said it proved the law was badly written. On Tuesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled in a 2-1 decision that the IRS overextended subsidies for Americans who bought health care through the federal governments online marketplace. But, later in the day, in another case, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the subsidies, ensuring the matter will be examined higher up the federal judiciary ladder.

Once again, a court ruling against Obamacare has reminded us that this law was poorly conceived, poorly written, and has been poorly executed by an Obama administration that believes it can just make up and change the rules as it goes, Rubio said on Tuesday. Its just the tip of the iceberg with a law thats also destined to either crush patients with obscenely high costs, lead to a taxpayer bailout of health insurance companies, or both. Obamacare is a bad piece of public policy that needs to be repealed and replaced.

With two conflicting appellate court rulings on Obamacare today, I reaffirm my belief that this law ultimately will fall apart, Rubio added.