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Federal judge refuses to order the Trump administration to resume ACA payments
Washington Post ^ | Oct. 25, 2017 | Amy Goldstein and Juliet Eilperin

Posted on 10/25/2017 3:17:44 PM PDT by Innovative

A federal judge in California on Wednesday denied a request from 19 attorneys general across the country to force the Trump administration to resume funding of cost-sharing payments under the Affordable Care Act.

The ruling leaves intact President Trump’s decision earlier this month to immediately end the payments that reimburse insurers for discounts the law requires them to give lower-income customers with health plans through ACA marketplaces. The attorneys general, from 18 states and the District, were seeking a judicial order that would have maintained the funding.

In his decision, Judge Vince Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California wrote that resuming the payments to insurers “would be counterproductive.”

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; obamacare; obamacaresubsidies; trump; trumpwinsagain
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To: Innovative

The illegality was looting FANNIE/FREDDIE to pay them in the first place.


21 posted on 10/25/2017 5:02:28 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (You can't have totalitarian globalist government if the peasants are armed, can you George?)
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To: Pride in the USA

Next step, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Gosh, I wonder how they will rule?


22 posted on 10/25/2017 5:46:22 PM PDT by lonevoice (diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
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To: Shethink13

The discounts are mandatory. But the ‘reimbursements’ aren’t.


23 posted on 10/25/2017 7:11:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Shethink13

I think that says that the discounts are required, not the re-imbursements.


24 posted on 10/25/2017 7:39:31 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: airborne

Another court has already ruled them illegal. The Repubs sued Dumbo and one.


25 posted on 10/26/2017 6:44:44 AM PDT by Trevieze (Messy desk is a sign of a messy mind. An empty desk is a sign of an empty mind!)
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To: Trevieze
The Repubs sued Dumbo and one.

"And one" what?

26 posted on 10/26/2017 6:46:21 AM PDT by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: lonevoice
I'd like to see theTrump administrative publicly announce that any and all rulings by the 9th Circuit will henceforth be ignored.

Let the left caterwaul about it...what else is new?

27 posted on 10/26/2017 6:48:59 AM PDT by daler
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To: Shethink13

Both views are partially correct. The ACA law does require the payments, but does not permanently appropriate the money to pay them - unlike the tax credits that get paid directly to low-income insured.

The payments to insurance companies was specifically NOT appropriated by congress, and the house sued the Obama administration for “finding” the money to make the payments anyway. The house won, and President Trump decided to follow the law - as he should.

The nest step is congress - and they are the ONLY people who can authorize the payments.


28 posted on 10/27/2017 12:57:57 PM PDT by MortMan (NFL kneelers: A colonoscopy is not supposed to be a self-exam.)
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