The Supreme Court found that health care subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are legal. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the decision, “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter.”

The Washington Post reports, “by a 6-3 vote, a divided court affirmed an Internal Revenue Service ruling that the subsidies should be available not only in states that have set up their own health insurance exchanges, but also in states where consumers rely on the federal government exchange.” Currently, 8.7 million people are using the subsidies, and 6.4 million would have been at risk of losing them if the Supreme Court voted against it.

Here is a (progressive think tank’s) video explaining the case:

In a statement, Whitman-Walker Health Clinic praised the Supreme Court’s decision. “We are gratified and thrilled that the Supreme Court has once again saved the Affordable Care Act from efforts to destroy it,” Whitman-Walker’s Senior Director of Policy Dan Bruner said. “The decision by the Chief Justice and a 6-3 majority cuts right to the heart of the issue: the federal subsidies that help middle- and lower-income individuals and families to afford health insurance must be available in every state for healthcare reform to work.”

The justices who were in the majority opinion were Roberts Anthony M. Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen G. Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel A. Alito Jr. dissented, with Scalia remarking, “We should start calling this law SCOTUScare.”

But Scalia’s scathing remarks in his dissent didn’t stop there. “Words no longer have meaning,” he wrote. At one point, he even described the Supreme Court’s decision process as “jiggery-pokery” and “pure applesauce.”

Politico wrote recently, “Regardless of how the Supreme Court decides this month on King v. Burwell, which challenges the legality of the administration’s decision to allow private insurance subsidies in federally run exchanges, what the episode reveals, yet again, is the Republican party’s historic failure to truly engage with the difficult realities and trade-offs of health policy—and how that failure has crippled the party’s ability to respond even when faced with events like big Supreme Court decisions that should force them to come up with an actual plan.”

President Obama will be addressing the decision today at 11:30 a.m. EST—you can watch here.