"Risk corridors, a commonly used tool in public policy, were included in the healthcare law to spread risk among insurance companies participating in the new health insurance exchanges.... Critics of the healthcare law have worked for a year to stop the government from spending additional money to enlarge those payments. [HHS] at one point assured the industry that more money would be available, but the 'cromnibus' spending bill ... would prevent that." [See also: House Appropriations Committee Summary of FY 2015 Omnibus -- Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations.]