House subpoenas documents on $3.5 billion in Obamacare payments

Published June 29, 2016 9:57pm ET



A House panel subpoenaed the Obama administration for documents surrounding what it says are $3.5 billion in improper payments to insurers to “prop up Obamacare.”

The House Energy and Commerce Committee issued a subpoena on Monday for all documents on payments under Obamacare’s reinsurance program. The subpoena is the latest step in an investigation by the panel into the payments, which Democrats charge is “overblown.”

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