By a vote of 6–3, the United States Supreme Court last week ruled in favor of the Obama administration in King v. Burwell, a case that challenged the federal government’s authority to provide subsidies for the purchase of health insurance for Obamacare in states that did not set up exchanges.

Here are statements about the decision issued from health care policy experts at The Heartland Institute, a 31-year-old national nonprofit organization headquartered in Chicago. Its stated mission is to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems:

Jeff Miller could be taking an unlikely turn as the lead actor on Florida’s political stage this week.

After last week’s Supreme Court decisions and this month’s special session, Floridians can be excused for wanting a slow in-between week as they ready for the Independence Day weekend.  As June draws to a close, the presidential election continues to eclipse the rest of the 2016 campaign cycle, but interest is rising in the race to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. 

In a swing district in South Florida, a freshman congressman and his Democratic challenger expressed support on Friday for the Supreme Court’s decision making same-sex marriage the law of the land. 

U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo, R-Fla., will be a top Democratic target in 2016 and the freshman congressman was one of a handful of congressional Republicans to applaud the decision. Along with U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Fla., who has been a key ally to his 2014 and 2016 efforts, Curbelo was one of the rare Florida Republicans who backed the ruling. 

After the merciful end of the special session and the months-long process of legislating, it looked like this week would be the beginning of the normal quiet days of summer in Tallahassee.

Gov. Rick Scott has been keeping busy this week in Florida, swiftly signing the state's budget into law Tuesday, but Scott also has Connecticut on his mind these days, setting his sights on luring businesses located there to head south to the Sunshine State. 

Florida’s leaders weighed in on Friday after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down same-sex marriage bans at the state level in a 5-4 decision. Justice Anthony Kennedy joined the liberal block in the majority. 

“The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” Kennedy wrote in the majority opinion. 

With the ruling, same-sex marriage is recognized across the United States. 

The flap over Confederate flags now sweeping the nation is stirring in the Florida Panhandle, where folks who failed to get the controversial banner removed more than a decade ago have revived their efforts.

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, this week called for the flag to be removed from its post in front of the state Capitol in the aftermath of the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers in Charleston. Haley called the Confederate flag "a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally offensive past."

Members of the Florida delegation continued to divide along party lines on Thursday afternoon over the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in King v. Burwell. 

Conservative talk-radio host K.C. Ingram-Traylor, one of the most vocal opponents of All Aboard Florida (AAF), is looking at running for Congress in the wide open race to replace U.S. Rep. Patrick Murphy, D-Fla., who is running for the U.S. Senate in 2016. 

Ingram-Traylor, who would run in the Republican primary, told Sunshine State News on Thursday that she was looking at entering the race. 

“I am definitely considering running for Congress,” Ingram-Traylor said.