Posted on 10/06/2016 5:14:45 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Republicans in Congress are plotting ways to block the Obama administration from paying insurance companies hundreds of millions of dollars as part of an ObamaCare program.
GOP lawmakers say they are looking at “a dozen” options — including a possible provision in the year-end spending bill — to prevent the administration from using an obscure fund within the Treasury Department to pay out massive settlements to insurers.
The insurance companies are suing over a shortfall in an ObamaCare program that they say is damaging their businesses.
Settling the cases could help insurers deal with losses on the ObamaCare marketplaces, but Republicans argue the move would be a “bailout” that would circumvent the will of Congress. …
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Well, YOU want that, and *I* want that...but I can already see The Hand of Congress sneaking towards our pockets!
Grrrrrr!
The insurance companies were involved in the creation of Obamacare. That fact that it does not work is on there heads. Let them go belly up.
Bulls—t yourself. If Snowe hadn’t voted for cloture the bill would have died in its infancy. Once she did that, that’s when the payoffs and handjobs began to people like Bart Stupak.
You miss my point, FRiend. If there WAS an opposition party, Mrs. Snowjob wouldn’t have been ON the committee to allow the vote; if not IN the (R) party to begin. Any blow-back from that fiasco?? Nope.
Hard to vote against that which, at the time, the (R)NC\GOP(e) were busy, rushing to the cameras and news shows claiming, “But...but OUR plan...”.
Not a Constitutional basis\done in the whole friggin’ lot....’cloture’ or not. Didn’t stop SCoTUS or the Prez from re-writting\changing on the fly either.
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