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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The illegality was looting FANNIE/FREDDIE to pay them in the first place.
Next step, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Gosh, I wonder how they will rule?
The discounts are mandatory. But the ‘reimbursements’ aren’t.
I think that says that the discounts are required, not the re-imbursements.
Another court has already ruled them illegal. The Repubs sued Dumbo and one.
"And one" what?
Let the left caterwaul about it...what else is new?
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.
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