Road Map: Health Deal-Making Kicks Off - Roll Call: "Democrats plan to hold a key caucus meeting tonight to talk about the upcoming negotiations with the Senate on a final bill. House leaders privately acknowledge that a public insurance option is dead, but they are nonetheless seeking a host of changes and tweaks to the final package that would collectively make it tougher on insurance companies and the rich and easier on the wallets of the middle class.
The House Democrats’ wish list includes beefing up affordability credits, nixing an insurers’ antitrust exemption and shrinking the “Cadillac” tax on high-cost insurance plans. And in return for agreeing to drop the public insurance option, House Democrats want a national insurance exchange instead of the patchwork of state-run exchanges called for in the Senate bill.
They also hope a voter backlash against Sens. Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn.) and Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) over concessions and special deals cut in the Senate version prompts the duo to show a modicum of flexibility."
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