An Insight Into Divisions Over Administration Authority to Pay Obamacare…

Source: Wall Street Journal | May 27, 2016 | Chris Jacobs

An Insight Into Divisions Over Administration Authority to Pay Obamacare Subsidies

A federal district judge ruled this month, in a lawsuit brought by House Republicans, that the Obama administration lacks the authority to pay cost-sharing subsidies to health insurers if Congress has not appropriated the funds. Some civil servants in the administration may agree.

The House Ways and Means Committee released a deposition Tuesday of David Fisher, former chief risk officer for the Internal Revenue Service. In it, Mr. Fisher recounts a series of events in late 2013 and early 2014 regarding the source and legality of Obamacare cost-sharing subsidies to insurers. The administration initially argued that the subsidies were subject to the budget sequester. By early 2014, however, it had shifted to the position that the cost-sharing subsidies were not subject to the sequester and could be paid under the appropriation authority for a separate program of premium subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act.

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