House GOP tries to cut off all funds for healthcare reform implementation

House Republicans released a draft spending bill Thursday that would cut off funding for many parts of healthcare reform, though the bill remains deadlocked in the Appropriations Committee.
The draft legislation would attempt to cut off almost all funding for implementation of the healthcare reform law. It would specifically block any money from going to the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight — the office handling the bulk of the implementation effort — as well as the recently disbanded office in charge of setting up the controversial CLASS program.
All told, the bill would rescind $6.8 billion in implementation funds, according to the Appropriations Committee. It would block funding for the Affordable Care Act until legal challenges over the law’s individual coverage mandate have been settled.
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