Judge Refuses To Reinstate ACA Cost-Sharing Payments To Insurers

Mealey's (October 26, 2017, 2:15 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Trump administration has the better legal argument in a case challenging the elimination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, and the relief sought by the plaintiff states would counterproductively harm their own residents, a federal judge in California said Oct. 25 in denying a preliminary injunction (The State of California, et al. v. Donald J. Trump, et al., No. 17-5895, N.D. Calif.)....