A federal judge appears to be sympathetic to the idea of granting a temporary restraining order that would force the administration of President Donald Trump to continue to make Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy payments.
The judge, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria, has scheduled a hearing on the request for the restraining order for 2 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time Monday.
The Affordable Care Act cost-sharing reduction subsidy program helps low-income Affordable Care Act exchange plan users pay their deductibles, co-payments and coinsurance amounts. Officials with the Trump administration said last week that they do not believe they have a valid congressional appropriation to make the payments. They said they would withhold a round of payments insurers were expecting to receive this week.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
