On The Surface, There Was Nothing unusual about the Oct. 6 telephone call between White House healthcare boss Nancy-Ann DeParle and Karen Ignagni, the leading medical-insurance lobbyist in Washington. The two women have known each other for years and often speak several times a week. Though Ignagni's group, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), has long been leery of-and at other times downright hostile to-the health-care bills moving through Congress, an uneasy truce was holding between the insurers and a White House bent on reform.
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