Obama seeks insurers’ health law help as Democrats waver

Published Updated 7 Min Read

(Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama pressed top U.S. insurers to help consumers cope with the rocky start of his health care law as the Republican-led House passed a bill that would let Americans keep their current policies through 2014.

Fifteen insurance industry representatives met Friday with Obama at the White House, where they expressed concern that a one-year reprieve he gave to people whose policies were canceled because of the law would make it harder to draw healthy enrollees, according to a person familiar with the meeting.


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