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Democrats work to finalize health legislation

Posted on 10/15/2009

White House officials and Senate Democrats are meeting in private to iron out differences on the health care overhaul.

Their common enemy in the public is the health insurance industry.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV testifed at a public hearing in favor of revoking health insurers' antitrust exemption.

Health insurers aren't winning any popularity contests.

A report released Wednesday by the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association found that individuals' premiums would rise by 50 percent within 5 years of enactment of the Senate Finance Committee bill.

Blue Cross association officials took pains to detail their methodology and approach as more comprehensive than in the other report.

But Democrats had little interest in such distinctions.

Sen. Reid Comments
Sen. Reid at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing said, "They are so anticompetitive. Why? Because they make more money than any other business in America today."

Congress is considering repealing an antitrust exemption that's been in place since the mid-1940s, when it was thought insurance regulation was best left to states.

Reid griped about "the barrage of paid advertising the insurance industry is doing now to prevent a health care bill from passing."

Opportunity for Public Option
The insurance industry may have unwittingly helped the case for public coverage with its report asserting the Finance bill would raise premiums for everyone, since the public option could offer lower-cost care.

Read the AP story

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