The Supreme Court has ruled that insurance companies can collect $12 billion from the federal government to cover their losses in the early years of the health care law championed by President Barack Obama.
The justices voted 8-1 Monday in holding that insurers are entitled to the money under a provision of the Affordable Care Act health law that promised the companies a financial cushion for losses they might incur by selling coverage to people in the marketplaces created by the health care law.
The case is separate from a challenge to the health care law that the court has agreed to hear in its term that begins in October.
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