Court Temporarily Blocks Obamacare Coverage to Dreamers in 19 States

The judge said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had ‘acted contrary to law’ by providing federal health care benefits to DACA recipients.

An Obamacare logo on the door of the UniVista Insurance agency in Miami on Jan. 10, 2017. Rhona Wise/AFP via Getty Images

A federal court on Dec. 9 temporarily blocked in 19 states the expansion of Obamacare coverage to immigrants who were illegally brought to the United States as children, also known as “Dreamers.”

The ruling stemmed from a lawsuit filed in August by the states seeking to prevent the federal government from implementing the rule to expand the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, to recipients of Deferred Action for Children Arrivals (DACA).