The Supreme Court has upheld the nationwide tax subsidies under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul allowing thousands of Illinois residents to continue receiving help with their monthly insurance premiums.
More than 230,000 Illinois residents could have lost the tax credits that help them pay for coverage if the court had ruled the other way.
In Illinois, the average monthly subsidy is $211. On average, consumers would have seen their premiums increase by 169 percent if the tax credits were no longer available, according to the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation.
Many consumers were unaware of the case.
Forty-four percent of Americans said they'd heard nothing at all about it and another 28 percent said they'd heard only a little, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation tracking poll in early June.
