Politico June 24, 2019
The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear a challenge from health insurers who argue the federal government owes them hefty Obamacare payments, stoking the possibility the Trump administration could be forced to pay out billions of dollars for a law it’s tried to dismantle.
The insurers claim they are due money from an Obamacare program helping companies that attracted sick and expensive customers in the early years of the law’s insurance marketplaces. The justices’ decision to take the case means it will reconsider an earlier appellate court ruling that the federal government isn’t on the hook for the payments.