House HHS Spending Bill Aims To Defund ACA By Cutting Issuer Fees

A sentence tucked in the House Appropriations Committee's draft fiscal 2016 HHS funding bill would ban the government from using issuer fees to run public health insurance exchanges, a move that, if approved, would deprive the marketplaces of their main funding source. It's one of a three-pronged attack by Republicans looking to ensure that “not one dime of federal tax dollars” appropriated to HHS can be spent on the “deeply flawed and unpopular health care law,” in the words of...