NU Online News Service, Jan. 22, 2:00 p.m. EST

WASHINGTON–A health care analyst and lawyer said today there is growing bipartisan support for repealing the McCarran-Ferguson Act's antitrust exemption for health insurers as a means of helping control health care costs.

In a conference call with interested parties, William Oldaker, a founding partner of The Oldaker Group LLC, Washington, D.C. also said House support for the Senate legislation is the key to the near-term fate of health care reform legislation.

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