States Claim HHS Improperly Cut $1B From ACA Health Program

(January 30, 2018, 2:47 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — The federal government is illegally withholding “well over” $1 billion in funding for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) “basic health programs,” state-run programs providing affordable health care to more than 800,000 low-income individuals but that rely on federal monies, the states of New York and Minnesota allege in a Jan. 26 complaint filed in a federal court in New York (State of New York, et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 18-683, S.D. N.Y.)....

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