About 135,000 people enrolled into the federal Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, about one-third of the number the government expected to enroll. But the feds stopped enrollment last month citing financial concerns.
Republican lawmakers, widely opposed to the PPACA, have said the higher levels of funding their party recommended in 2009 for the plan should have been allocated, as high as $30 billion, according to the report. Now, they’re urging regulators to redirect money allocated elsewhere in the PPACA to the health plan through the end of the year.
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