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The double-cross

October 11, 2009 By Mark Kleiman @markarkleiman

The health insurance lobby, AHIP, having negotiated itself a fairly sweet deal over health care reform, has just launched a Pearl Harbor-style sneak attack featuring a bogus “study” by PricewaterhouseCoopers, which the last time I checked wasn’t a health-care think tank.

Not clear whether AHIP is just trying to squeeze out a slightly better deal or whether they’re going for the kill, but either way this sort of behavior has to have costs.  If I were Max Baucus or Barack Obama, I’d figure out one thing in the bill that the health insurers wanted and take it out, and something else that was omitted to placate them and put it back in.

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