Federal Judge Sides With House GOP On Obamacare Funding

FILE - This March 1, 2014 file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov, seen in Washington. President Barack Obama’s health care law has become a tale of two Americas. States that fully embraced the law... FILE - This March 1, 2014 file photo shows part of the website for HealthCare.gov, seen in Washington. President Barack Obama’s health care law has become a tale of two Americas. States that fully embraced the law’s coverage expansion are experiencing a significant drop in the share of their residents who remain uninsured, according to an extensive new poll released Tuesday. States whose leaders still object to “Obamacare” are seeing much less change. The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, cumulatively based on tens of thousands of interviews, found a drop of 4 percentage points in the share of uninsured residents for states that adopted the law’s Medicaid expansion and either built or helped run their own online insurance markets. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File) MORE LESS
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WASHINGTON (AP) -€” A federal judge has ruled that the Obama administration is unconstitutionally spending federal money to fund the president’s health care law.

The ruling Thursday from U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer is a win for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal challenge.

At stake is $175 billion the government is paying to reimburse health insurers over a decade to reduce co-payments for lower-income people.

The House argues that Congress never specifically appropriated that money and has denied an administration request for it, but that the administration is spending the money anyway.

Collyer issued an order stopping further reimbursements, but delayed its implementation while the case is appealed.

Collyer is a George W. Bush appointee nominated in 2002.

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  1. Avatar for xyxox xyxox says:

    This ruling will be overturned, and then a divided SCOTUS will uphold the overturning of the ruling.on a 4-4 vote.

  2. I like the HCA’s odds with the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.

  3. The ruling Thursday from U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer is a win
    for House Republicans who brought the politically charged legal
    challenge.

    A win that will be overturned. I guess they have to take their wins were they can get them.

  4. Very much like those odds a well.

  5. Huh. And the House “knuckleheads” really want to bring this up during a Presidential election year? Has Rump taken a position on the ACA yet?

    OK. The Warren wing of the Dems is ready to have at it.

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