Justices weigh Maine health insurer's claim of ACA 'bait-and-switch'

One of Maine’s leading health insurers is hoping for a major victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case testing provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Community Health Options of Lewiston was one of many insurers affected when payments it believed were guaranteed by the landmark law enacted under President Obama in 2010 were eliminated after Republicans assumed full control of Congress in 2015.

Prominent Washington, D.C., attorney Paul Clement argued for the insurers Dec. 10 in Maine Community Health Options v. United States.

Clement – a Maine native who has argued nearly 100 cases before the Supreme Court – minced no words about the government’s de-appropriation, calling it “a massive bait-and-switch.”

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