Language in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has led two House Republicans to request documentation in hopes of finding a loophole in the way the law will grant subsidies to health insurance customers, according to a report from The Hill.
The healthcare reform law requires all states to have an online health insurance exchange for residents to shop for health insurance. Those exchanges can be run by the states, or all or in part by the federal government. A statute in the legislation will give subsidies to most customers using a "state exchange" to buy health insurance, but House Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) are leading an argument that the subsidies should not apply to the federally-run exchanges adopted by most Republican governors.
The IRS has said the subsidies are to be used for all the exchanges, regardless of who operates them, but the situation has raised suspicions for Republicans.
In a letter to the IRS Monday, the two representatives demanded access to unedited forms of documents that were presented to Congressional committees during discussions regarding the insurance exchanges and subsidies.
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The healthcare reform law requires all states to have an online health insurance exchange for residents to shop for health insurance. Those exchanges can be run by the states, or all or in part by the federal government. A statute in the legislation will give subsidies to most customers using a "state exchange" to buy health insurance, but House Reps. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) are leading an argument that the subsidies should not apply to the federally-run exchanges adopted by most Republican governors.
The IRS has said the subsidies are to be used for all the exchanges, regardless of who operates them, but the situation has raised suspicions for Republicans.
In a letter to the IRS Monday, the two representatives demanded access to unedited forms of documents that were presented to Congressional committees during discussions regarding the insurance exchanges and subsidies.
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