An aide to Ms. Pelosi said House Democrats want to move forward on passing individual reforms that can garner strong public support before they leave Washington for a President’s Day recess on Feb. 12.
While the House’s stalled reform bill contains a repeal of the antitrust exemption created in 1945 by the McCarran-Ferguson Act, the Senate version does not.
Although Sen. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and a passel of liberal Senate Democrats support a repeal of the exemption, it was removed from the Senate bill reportedly at the behest of Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), a former insurance company president.
Read CBS News’ report on the insurance antitrust bill.
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