GOP lawmaker pushes to prevent last-minute Obamacare bailouts

Published November 18, 2016 4:40pm ET



A House lawmaker proposed legislation Thursday to make sure the Obama administration doesn’t provide any last-minute bailouts to Obamacare insurers by settling lawsuits with them.

Rep. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to limit the Justice Department’s ability to settle a series of lawsuits with Obamacare insurers. Republicans have charged that the administration may try to use the department’s Judgment Fund to settle the lawsuits to provide insurers with funding that they are not expected to get from the Republican-led Congress.

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