[zeestephen]

RE: “Section 1342 of the Affordable Care Act forces taxpayers to make insurers whole for most of the losses incurred selling Obamacare exchange plans through 2016.”

And THIS, my friends, is what McConnell, Boehner, and Paul Ryan agreed to when they signed the budget surrender.

So, here's the GOP 2014 election strategy:

First, a large majority of GOP Congressmen vote to fully fund ObamaCare for two years, including bailouts.

Second, we ask voters to reelect GOP Congressmen, because ObamaCare is really, really bad, and someone must stop it!

[hawkaw]

So you are correct but barring another (partial) government closure, which is like the equivalent of touching that political third rail thanks to how it is portrayed in the media and how many people feel about it, what option do they have left until after the November elections.

This reminds me of the British in World War II. If they had stayed in France and kept fighting they would have lost all of their assets. Instead, they decided to leave France and then come back in 1944 a lot more stronger and with a lot more big friends to beat the hell out of the Germans.

Maybe I am wrong but I just don’t see any other political option.