NU Online News Service, Oct. 16, 2009, 4:05 p.m. EST

Officials of America's Health Insurance Plan are apparently extending an olive branch to Senate Democratic leaders in an effort to re-open talks aimed at reshaping the health care reform legislation passed by a Senate panel earlier this week.

At the same time, AHIP released a new study which it says is "consistent" with a controversial study released Sunday, which it commissioned. The new study said the current versions of health care reform legislation will raise the cost of health care insurance for most American families. The study does not, however, include the impact of medical inflation.

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