Mealey's (May 13, 2019, 1:36 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congress never appropriated funds for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) cost-sharing reduction program and, thus, never created a duty to make those payments, the United States tells a U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge in a May 9 reply (Blue Cross And Blue Shield of North Dakota v. The United States, No. 18-1983C, Fed. Clms.)....