White House: health law change in budget deal is modest adjustment

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White House: health law change in budget deal is modest adjustment

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-health-law-change-budget-deal-modest-174445926--business.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/l3lLPdoVHrVrpIYI92OgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-10-16T174445Z_1_CBRE99F1DAQ00_RTROPTP_2_USA-FISCAL.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Senator John McCain talks to reporters in U.S. Capitol in Washington" align="left" title="Senator John McCain talks to reporters in U.S. Capitol in Washington" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday defended the inclusion of a change to President Barack Obama's healthcare law in the proposed Senate budget deal as a modest adjustment, rather than a concession that the administration was making to prevent a debt default. &quot;The income verification provision ... was negotiated by Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans and is a modest adjustment to the existing Affordable Care Act law,&quot; White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters at a briefing. &quot;We've always said we were willing to make improvements and adjustments to the law,&quot; he added. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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