Posted on 10/13/2017 6:58:50 PM PDT by markomalley
Attorneys general from eighteen states and the District of Columbia have teamed up for a lawsuit against President Trump's decision to discontinue payments to Obamacare insurers.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Friday that New York, California, and Massachusetts would be spearheading an effort to pursue an injunction against the decision. The lawsuit, filed later in the day with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California shows that Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and the District of Columbia have joined the cause.
The lawsuit filed by the attorneys general says that their states and Washington, D.C., "bring this action to protect themselves and their residents from the unlawful actions of the President and the Secretaries of the Treasury and Health and Human Services, and other federal officials responsible for implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act."
The payments Trump decided to halt are cost-sharing reduction payments that insurers receive as a reimbursement for lowering copays and deductibles for low-income Obamacare customers. As a result, insurers will likely raise prices if the subsidies are discontinued because they are still required to lower out-of-pocket costs for poor enrollees.
A group of 18 attorneys general, including from New York, launched a separate effort to intervene in a 2014 lawsuit between the House and the Obama administration on healthcare. The House claimed the cost-sharing reduction payments required congressional funding, however, the Obama administration said the CSRs do not require congressional funding.
A federal judge agreed with the House in 2016, but stayed her ruling until the 2016 election concluded. The Trump administration did not decide if it would continue the Obama administration's appeal, that is until Trump announced Thursday night that his administration would be dropping the appeal, ending payments to insurers on Oct. 18.
Trump acknowledged the judge's ruling, but Democrats say his decision was meant to undercut Obamacare.
Poor them.
He rescinded Bammy’s executive order.
Ain’t sh¡t they can do.
Oh boy! Roberts might get a chance to rewrite Obamacare, again!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. More “lawsuits” against the American taxpayers by the commie fags. What else is new? (((YAWN)))
Another lawsuit trying to force a president to uphold the executive orders of a previous president. I think this is history being made. This is how we find the Constitutional limits on the Judiciary.
Sure glad this happened! MAGA!
Apparently these distinguished experts cannot read the Constitution. It says that ALL fundings must originate in the House of Representatives. The President cannot allocate money any way he sees fit, Constitutionally.
If they were worth half of what they are paid, they would know this.
Traitor Roberts has been keeping a low profile for quite a while now.
Maybe i am missing something but shouldnt their lawsuit be against congress
Suing Trump to force him to reinstate policies that were illegal in the first place? How quaint.
Another opportunity for a tyrant wearing a black robe to jam their liberal agenda down our throats
If I have read correctly, the subsidies we already declared illicit by the court. President Trump simply discontinued an illegal subsidy. The lawsuit exceeds the bounds of sanity.
All Democrat-controlled states? Yep, looks like. Even NC went Commie last gubernatorial election.
Ah, the states are now in the “gibsmedat” mode.
LMAO!!!
Lib commie heads are exploding all over the country....love it.
They want a civil war? Let em bring it.
Let’s see, I’m in NY, and the ACA ... sucks!!! And with a 2nd ACA insurer failure around the corner.
The Democrats terminated my pre-ACA plan forcing us onto inferior plans that effectively cost 60% more. And we lost our preferred hospital, doctors, pediatricians, nearby clinics, nearby labs.
Think of it...Liberal federal courts,then supreme court says president can spend taxpayer money without congress....Annnnnnd Trump gets reelected in 2020... Democrat and liberals heads would explode and brain bits all over the USA....
“Even NC went Commie last gubernatorial election”
No, it’s the crappy Democrat governor who got elected by voter fraud. The legislature is quite Republican and mostly conservative.
Ending an unconstitutional practice isn’t unlawful.
Time for some judge shipping at Black Robed Oligarchs R US
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