To: Innovative
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.Requires???? I thought the reimbursements were deemed unconstitutional?
10 posted on
10/25/2017 3:25:52 PM PDT by
Shethink13
(there are 0 electoral votes in the state of denial)
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.)
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)
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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