Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that a pro-Obamacare ruling would free a large number of employers from the employer mandate provisions of the ACA. That would have been the result of an anti-Obamacare ruling.

Dive Brief:

• The Supreme Court ruled that President Obama’s health care law may provide nationwide tax subsidies to help poor and middle-class people buy health insurance, according to the Times.
• Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion in the 6-to-3 decision. The court’s three most conservative members — Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. — dissented.
• The case concerned a central part of the Affordable Care Act, which created marketplaces, known as exchanges, to allow people who lack insurance to shop for individual health plans.

Dive Insight:

With an anti-Obamacare result from the SCOTUS, according to research from the American Action Forum, a large number of employers (262,000) would have been freed from the employer mandate to provide healthcare insurance coverage since the mandate will be unenforceable.

Given that, says the report, "TaKing Stock: The Potential Impact of King v. Burwell," employers could have dropped coverage altogether since employees in every state will be able to purchases insurance at relatively low cost through the exchanges.