HEALTHCARE/OBAMACARE(ACA)/POLITICS: “More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general on Thursday [5-18-17] sought to intervene to defend a key part of the Obamacare healthcare law — subsidy payments to insurance companies — which is under threat in a court case.
The 16 attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, filed a motion to intervene in the case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The case, which dates back to the Obama administration, was filed by the Republican-led House of Representatives against the federal government in an effort to cut off subsidy payments to insurers for the individual plans created by the Affordable Care Act, often called Obamacare.”
-Dan Levine, Lawrence Hurley and Yasmeen Abutaleb, “Democratic attorneys general seek to intervene in Obamacare case,” Reuters, May 18, 2017 2:18pm