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Among the billions of dollars in fresh spending aimed at spurring economic growth, the $3.9-trillion budget for the 2015 fiscal year that President Barack Obama delivered to Congress on Tuesday, which has been labeled a populist wishlist primed for election year politics, included $5.5 billion in potential payments to insurance companies that suffer losses as result of the Affordable Care Act. When the healthcare reform was drafted, a temporary feature was created to reimburse insurers in the event that fewer than expected healthy individuals enrolled. This was intended to serve a cost buffer during the experimental early years of the health care reform by limiting the risk they will face by entering the new insurance market. But Republican Senator Marco Rubio of Florida branded the risk corridors, as they are called, as a ?bailout? for the insurance industry.

Man reading this article, Obamacare has some really big problems to overcome

Although several aspects of the healthcare reform have yet to be implemented, Gallup found that as of late February and early March, 23 percent of respondents have found the healthcare law has hurt them or their families, while 10 percent of respondents have found it has helped them so far. Still, the majority of respondents, 63 percent, felt the law has had no impact on them or their families. ?Despite the extraordinary emphasis on fixing problems with the healthcare exchanges that marred the initial rollout of the law, and a national campaign to enroll more Americans through the exchanges, most Americans remain unconvinced that the law will be beneficial to their families in the long run,? noted Gallup?s Justin McCarthy. ?By 40 percent to 21 percent, Americans say the law is more likely to make their families? healthcare situations worse rather than better, with the rest saying it will make little difference.?