NU Online News Service, Dec. 18, 1:05 p.m. EST

There will be no language repealing the antitrust exemption afforded health and medical malpractice insurers in the Senate health care legislation, an aide to its chief Senate sponsor confirmed today.

The fact that there will be no further effort to get the provision in the Senate bill was confirmed by an aide to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the chief sponsor of S. 1681–legislation that would have repealed the antitrust exemption for health-related insurers.

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