For some clarity on this - these payments are ones that happen FROM insurance companies TO insurance companies (with the government being the middleman/referee/accountant for the transaction). So if their suspension causes some carriers to raise their rates (because they didn't receive their payments),
it would thus have to mean other carriers lowering their rates (because they didn't make their payments). There are no additional monies coming from the government.
Here is a good read about what these payments (risk adjustment) actually are, and what they've done in the past. Also, article talks about how this could have been resolved in the past, but wasn't. In the end, much like my thoughts on risk corridors, this may have been just another good intentioned idea that didn't work out as planned - and could have done more harm than good in the end.