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The Obama administration pledged to use any tool available to recoup $1 billion in taxpayer money used to fund 12 insurance startups that have folded.

But getting that money back is easier said than done, experts said.

More than half of the 23 taxpayer-funded Obamacare consumer oriented and operated plans will not offer insurance in 2016. A slew of financial problems that include a lack of federal funding helped doom the co-ops, created to offer more plans on Obamacare marketplaces.


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