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. Portability

NPR's Joanne Silberner reports that the House debates a health insurance bill (with a vote later this evening) that will allow people who have insurance to keep it even if they get sick or change jobs. But conservative Republicans have tacked on a number of features for insurers, small businesses, doctors and other interest groups that are bound to give the bill problems when it meets the more streamlined Senate version later this spring.

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