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Insurance agents have won a critical change in the House Energyand Commerce Committee version of health care reform legislationthat allows them to remain a crucial part of the distributionsystem.

Through language negotiated by conservative Democrats as theHouse left for its summer recess, agents won explicit authority tosell policies within the health insurance "exchanges" that would becreated under the legislation.

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