Two health insurance cooperatives are suing the Obama administration over a program designed to financially help insurers with sicker, more expensive customers.

Minuteman Health Inc., a nonprofit health plan that started in 2013, filed a lawsuit Friday in federal court that says the federal government is calculating the payments illegally and unfairly in a way that favors companies selling more expensive plans.

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