Pallone, Neal Ask GAO To Investigate IRS, HHS Enforcement Of Individual Mandate

Leading House Democrats say they believe the Trump administration's public reluctance to get behind the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate is helping to spike premiums and contributing to the instability of the individual market and have asked the Government Accountability Office to investigate HHS' potential failure to enforce the mandate. Richard Neal (MA), ranking Democrat on the House Ways & Means Committee, and Frank Pallone (NJ), ranking Democrat on the Energy & Commerce Committee, asked for the investigation shortly after...