The Maine Community Health Options ruling could end up affecting the fate of two of the ACA subsidy programs, and the survival of all of the ACA. (Photo: J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
The U.S. Supreme Court's new Affordable Court Act ruling could add some stability to the individual and family major medical insurance market, at a time the COVID-19 is shaking everything up.
The court ruled, in a 8-1 decision released today, that Congress can't cancel what looks like an agreement to pay insurers for participating in a program by simply zeroing out funding for the payments.
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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.
