(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The House voted to give insurers one more year to offer health plans due to be canceled under the new health law, with a clutch of Democrats backing a Republican plan in a rebuff to the White House. The vote came one day after President Obama said that he would let insurers re-enroll consumers for one year in plans that didn’t meet the law’s minimum standards.
The White House said that Mr. Obama would veto the Upton bill, saying it would allow insurers to sell substandard plans to new customers, omitting coverage for people with pre-existing conditions and charging women more than men.
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