The AP tells us about moves to change the current anti-trust 'exemption' for insurance companies. They're probably right that this move is going forward now because of AHIP's turn to undermine health care finance reform by issuing and trumpeting a wildly misleading assessment of the effect that reform would have on premiums -- so misleading that the accounting firm that prepared it issued a public notice that they had been commissioned to assess only aspects of the bill that might increase premiums, but to ignore features that might decrease premiums.

How the AP (followed blindly by the NT Times), decribe this?

"The events occurred less than a week after the insurers' trade association issued a report saying a measure that cleared the Senate Finance Committee would produce sharp increases in premiums for millions who currently have insurance. Democrats and the White House reacted angrily, attacking the study as flawed and politically motivated."

I've heard that people disagree about whether the earth is round, too.

It's classic he-said/she-said ventriloquism. There's nothing explicitily false about the AP's statement, but it's presented in such a way to dismiss critiques of the AHIP study -- which was transparently flawed, as noted above, and which was most obviously political. By saying that Democrats "reacted angrily", the AP substitutes the attribution of emotions to the reporting of facts.