(Bloomberg) -- Obamacare is under legal attack again, and in the health-care industry it’s hospitals that have the most to lose.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that subsidies for patients’ out-of-pocket costs may be illegal in President Barack Obama’s signature health-care law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Those subsidies are a key part of the law that helped millions of Americans afford health care. If the ruling is upheld by higher courts, billions of dollars in payments to hospitals would be at risk as insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical costs rise.
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