By Guy Boulton @ The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, July 2

[....] Common Ground Healthcare, based in Brookfield, now is among more than 100 health insurers who contend that the federal government owes them billions of dollars for reneging on commitments made as part of the Affordable Care Act [....]

The cooperative is the lead plaintiff in a class-action lawsuit involving the payments. The lawsuit — one of several stemming from the issue — includes 116 health insurers.

The plaintiffs include affiliates of some of the country’s largest insurers, such as UnitedHealthcare, as well as Wisconsin insurers, such as Dean Health Plan, Security Health Plan and Network Health Plan [....]

The lawsuits are just one example of how the battles over the Affordable Care Act continue to be fought in the courts more than eight years after it became law. Wisconsin is among the 20 states, for instance, that have filed a lawsuit in Texas to have the law declared unconstitutional. The lawsuits filed by Common Ground Healthcare and other health insurers stem from one of the provisions in the Affordable Care Act designed to lessen the initial risk that insurers would take on by selling health plans on the new marketplace [....]