Attorney General Jeff Sessions: Insurer payments unconstitutional

Published April 19, 2017 8:37pm ET



Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday added to the uncertainty over whether insurers will receive critical payments from the Trump administration, saying that he doubts the payments are constitutional.

Sessions said during a Fox News interview that the payments to insurers, which reimburse them for lowering the cost of copays and deductibles for low-income Obamacare customers and are the subject of a House lawsuit, should be appropriated by Congress.

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