Supreme Court ends last ACA challenge in the high court

The Supreme Court denied a review of a lower court's dismissal of the case West Virginia v. the Department of Health and Human Services, which challenged HHS' 2013 "administrative fix" to the ACA, meaning all ACA cases have currently been cleared from the Supreme Court, according to Health Affairs blog

The case challenged the legality of the "administrative fix," which gave states the power to decide if payers could offer grandmothered, ACA-non-compliant health plans beyond the December 2013 cutoff, according to the blog. West Virginia argued the decision to enforce this policy should not be given to the states and asked the courts to declare HHS' policy invalid. 

A district court dismissed the case and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision. West Virginia brought the case to the Supreme Court, claiming it was injured by the policy because it held the state "politically accountable" for enforcing the ACA, which it claimed is the responsibility of the federal government, according to the blog.

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