The issue focused on how the federal government could plan to provide public assistance to the more than 60 states that have enacted rules that regulate the private employer health plans that provide health insurance to workers and provide access to health care for state employees in the new health care law's individual market.


The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the states are not permitted to prevent the federal government from implementing a federal law that directly affects federal employees, according to the court's order handed down in a case filed by the Court of Appeals