By Naomi Bauman, includes “The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, is moving forward with a bailout of ObamaCare health-insurance exchange insurers for 2015 even though they have been told that their scheme is illegal. … But HHS is moving forward with a bailout in 2015 even though a recent legal opinion from the U.S. General Accounting Office concluded that HHS cannot make risk corridor payments in 2015 and beyond without congressional authorization. The Congressional Research Service has also issued a similar opinion. So far, HHS has not obtained that authorization. If HHS bails out insurers, it will not only be the 25^th unilateral action on the part of the Obama administration to change the ACA, but it will also put taxpayers in the unfair and costly position of paying an even-higher price for this calamitous law. …”

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