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House GOP gets its say on plan cancellations

Republicans renewed an assault on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his own credibility on Friday as they pushed toward House passage of a measure to let insurers keep offering health coverage that falls short of the law's standards.

By David Espo | Updated on November 15, 2013
Speaking about PPACA, House Speaker John Boehner insisted it was time to "scrap this law once and for all." (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans renewed an assault on President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul and his own credibility on Friday as they pushed toward House passage of a measure to let insurers keep offering health coverage that falls short of the law’s standards.

A day earlier, the president changed course in the face of a public uproar and said he would take administrative action — which doesn’t need congressional approval — to let companies continue selling such plans for at least another year. Unlike the House GOP bill, he would permit such sales to insurers’ existing customers only, not to new ones.

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