.MaddowBlog: Supreme Court rejects argument intended to undermine the ACA
Many of the Affordable Care Act's opponents keep looking to the U.S. Supreme Court to help undermine the health care reform law. They also keep coming up short, including in a ruling that was issued this morning.
NBC News' Pete WilliamsBy an 8-1 vote, the court said when Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, it set up programs to compensate insurance companies during the first three years for plans that turned out to be unprofitable. But when several companies sustained a total of $12 billion in losses, both the Obama and Trump administrations said because Congress didn't fully fund the reimbursement program, the government had no obligation to pay..
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