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Fed. Circ. Shortchanged Insurers On ACA Pay, High Court Told
Law360 (February 24, 2021, 8:36 PM EST) A pair of insurers urged the U.S. Supreme Court to accept their challenge to a Federal Circuit decision that they argue shortchanged them on the money they say they are owed as a result of being stiffed on Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction payments.
Community Health Choice Inc. and Maine Community Health Options petitioned the high court on Feb. 19 to consider an August ruling in litigation stemming from the Trump administration s decision to cut off cost-sharing reduction payments in 2017. The payments were meant to help reduce copays and deductibles for low-income consumers on the ACA exchanges.
Holding Congress to its Word: Statutory Realism, Second-Generation Textualism, and ACA Entrenchment in Maine Community Health Options Abbe R. Gluck Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Yale Law School
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“The stakes of the risk corridor cases underscore the ACA’s outsized impact. The Supreme Court decides many of the most contentious and significant issues facing the nation, but even the Supreme Court does not get many $12 billion cases.”
- Former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement, who opposed the ACA in the Supreme Court twice before defending it in 2020[2]
No statute in modern American history has been challenged as much as the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Few, if any, other statutes are as long or as complex in design. No statute has been as politically wounded: Congress tried unsuccessfully to repeal the ACA more than seventy times and then worked instead, sometimes with the Wh