A federal judge rejected a bid by Democratic state officials to temporarily block the White House from ending so-called cost-sharing reduction payments to health insurers under the Affordable Care Act.
A coalition of 19 Democratic attorneys general, led by California’s Xavier Becerra and New York’s Eric Schneiderman, sought to force the federal government to continue to make the payments that help insurance companies lower out-of-pocket costs for poorer policyholders.
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco disagreed with the states, saying most had time to plan for the end of cost-sharing payments and had adjusted accordingly, so restoring the payments could do more harm than good.
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