{"id":85636,"date":"2017-10-20T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85636"},"modified":"2017-10-19T23:14:23","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T03:14:23","slug":"schneiderman-coalition-of-attorneys-general-seek-emergency-injunction-over-healthcare-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=85636","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman, coalition of attorneys general seek emergency injunction over healthcare subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"AGs Seek To Compel Trump Administration To Pay Vital Subsidies That Make Health Care Affordable For Most Vulnerable<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and a coalition of Attorneys General filed a motion to compel the federal government to follow the law and pay the vital health care subsidies on which thousands of New Yorkers and millions of Americans rely to afford health insurance. Today\u2019s filing follows\u00a0a lawsuit filed last week by the coalition of 19 Attorneys General<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Trump Administration abruptly refused to make the October cost-sharing reduction payments required under the Affordable Care Act,\u00a0which reduce co-payments, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket costs for low-income Americans. Under the Affordable Care Act, these payments are made monthly to insurance companies. Cutting off the subsidies has already destabilized the healthcare market; New York insurance plans alone face a hit of millions of dollars in money that had previously been budgeted, leading to rising insurance rates for New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s abrupt move to cut these subsidies is reckless, dangerous, – and illegal,\u201d said\u00a0Attorney General Schneiderman. \u201cThese payments are vital to thousands of New Yorkers and millions of Americans who rely on them to afford their health care. Yet President Trump is using those families as political pawns, putting their lives at risk to advance his own partisan agenda. We won\u2019t stand for it \u2013 and we\u2019re moving to block these dangerous cuts before they do any more harm.\u201d<\/p>\n

In May, Attorney General Schneiderman and California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, leading a coalition of Attorneys General,\u00a0moved to intervene in House v. Price in order to protect millions of Americans\u2019 access to affordable health care<\/a>. The DC Circuit granted their intervention in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AGs Seek To Compel Trump Administration To Pay Vital Subsidies That Make Health Care Affordable For Most Vulnerable Today, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman and a coalition of Attorneys General filed a motion to compel the federal government to follow the law and pay the vital health care subsidies on which thousands of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}