Will the Supreme Court hand Obamacare health insurers a $12,000,000,000 payout?
Obamacare was back at the Supreme Court Tuesday for the fifth time, dividing the justices in a complicated case with big stakes for taxpayers.
The provision was used to induce insurers to join the Obamacare insurance exchanges in spite of substantial financial risk. The Trump administration argues the health law's promise to pay insurers was implicitly contingent on Congress appropriating the funds. When lawmakers later chose to limit the funds, the money rightfully didn't flow, they say.
"Why does the government not have to pay its contracts like anybody else?" questioned Justice Stephen Breyer."All the statutes that say, 'if you do X, the government shall pay you, Mr. Veteran, Mr. Paratrooper, Mr., you know, you name it,' -- they don't really mean it. Is that what it is?"
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