U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday appeared sympathetic to claims made by he...
A sign on an insurance store advertises Obamacare in San Ysidro, San Diego, California, U.S., October 26, 2017. REUTERS/Mike Blake
The justices heard a one-hour oral argument over a challenge by a group of insurers of a lower court’s ruling that Congress had suspended the government’s obligation to make such payments. The insurers have said that ruling, if allowed to stand, would let the government pull a “bait-and-switch” and withhold money the companies were promised.
“Why doesn’t the government have to pay its contracts just like everybody else?” said Justice Stephen Breyer. The law, dubbed Obamacare, has enabled millions of Americans who previously had no medical coverage to obtain insurance, including those with pre-existing medical conditions.
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