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Schumer drawing blood in D.C. health insurance flap

Monday October 12, 2009 4:17 PM By Tom Brune

Photo credit: Getty/Win McNamee

The nation's top health insurance lobbying group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) blasted the Senate Finance Committee's health overhaul legislation to be voted on tomorrow, issuing a study charging the bill will actually make health insurance premiums go higher, rather than lower, than expected.

Partly to blame, the study said, are two amendments that Sen. Charles...

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