Since the signing of the landmark healthcare law in 2010, HHS has sent the IRS $200 million to prepare two administering several parts of it: the controversial individual health insurance mandate tax penalty and the tax credit program to help low-income people purchase health insurance. HHS plans to transfer $300 million to the IRS from a $1 billion implementation fund the department received as an appropriation of PPACA.
According to the Government Accountability Office, the HHS-IRS transfers are legal and in-line with how general federal implementation funds are spent.
Republican lawmakers are trying to halt such implementation funding for the law, at least until the Supreme Court makes a ruling — likely in June — on the constitutionality of PPACA.
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