New Legal Setback for Obamacare

Basically, this is the subsidy you get when you by a silver plan that caps your co-pay and deductibles if your income is at a certain level. In other words, someone making say 25k a year could get hit with out of pocket costs of 25k-30k if they suffered a major injury or catastrophic illness instead of the $1,200 to $2,500 they do now. The article says 7 million people have plans like these.

Source

From malibber2's source, USA Today :

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While the law provides for tax credits, she said, it does not authorize an appropriation for slashing deductibles and copayments. Without those reductions from insurers, many consumers could not afford to buy insurance.

"Congress authorized reduced cost-sharing but did not appropriate monies for it,," Collyer said in her 38-page ruling. "Congress is the only source for such an appropriation, and no public money can be spent without one."
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It's the sort of thing that happens when one party is frantically trying to pass a bill with a 100% partisan vote.
And it is based upon the Separation of Powers enumerated in the Constitution, i.e. a President cannot spend money not appropriated by Congress.

looks like a lot of folks got snookered. who would a thunk it?

But they just had to pass the bill to find out what was in it....