>>> you seem to be avoiding that fact that this PROVISION was SLIPPED into this 703 page bill by REPUBLICANS -- blame the right folks here.
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>Alternatively, risk corridor payments that Congress had refused, were being slipped past Congress that had to keep passing bills to stop it- and HHS simply continued finding other ways to slip the payments past Congress, to the point where a HHS Slush Fund Elimination Act was introduced. Yes, that's its exact name.
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>But lets not forget the premise that risk corridors were to be budget-neutral and would NOT need taxpayer bailouts. That's how it was presented, Victor. So if you want to blame Rubio for a clause saying the risk corridors had to be cost neutral- then you'll need to include the people who insisted they would be, and then began playing a shell game to pay insurers billions so the ACA could appear to succeed- for a little while.


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