The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for insurers to sue in order to collect some $12 billion in Obamacare payments.
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In an 8-1 opinion penned by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court said that Congress created a"rare money-mandating obligation requiring the federal government to make payments" under the law."These holdings reflect a principle as old as the Nation itself: The Government should honor its obligations," Sotomayor wrote.
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