Republican senators seek to stop DC’s individual mandate

Published July 24, 2018 4:18pm ET



A group of six GOP senators want to stop the District of Columbia’s effort to create their own individual mandate that every city resident get health insurance.

The senators introduced on Tuesday an amendment to an appropriations bill that would stop federal funds from re-implementing the mandate’s financial penalty. The tax reform law zeroed out the penalty starting in 2019.

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