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 Sources close to the insurance industry tell CNN's Gloria Borger that it looks like insurance companies will cooperate with President Barack Obama's proposed solution to the problem of health care plan cancellations due to Obamacare. 
 
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 (CNN) - President Barack Obama will lay out an administrative solution to address the problem of people getting cancellation notices from their health insurance providers due to the Affordable Care Act, a senior Democratic source familiar with the plan tells CNN's Chief Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash. 
 
 Obama will deliver remarks at 11:35 a.m. ET in the White House Press Briefing Room, the White House announced Thursday morning. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The plan will in part call for insurance policies to be renewed for one year for those who already have insurance policies in the individual market, the source said. 
 
 If an insurance company does renew a substandard plan, it would be required to do two things. First, it would have to notify the policy holder of alternative coverage options. Second, the company would have to disclose all of the benefits a policy holder will lose if she keeps an existing substandard plan. 
 
 The source noted the President may disclose additional details. 
 
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 In addition, the source said the President would allow state insurance commissioners to decide on their own to not permit this renewal. 
 
 It's worth noting, however, that there are some states - including Virginia, Kentucky and Idaho - that require all plans in their state to comply with Affordable Care Act standards. 
 
 White House officials get earful from Democrats on Obamacare 
 
 Even though the President is about to announce the fix, House Democrats are planning to unveil their own legislative proposal that will be offered as an alternative during a procedural vote on the House GOP bill tomorrow, according to two senior House Democratic aides. 
 
 “It's back up,” one of these aides told CNN. “We want to have suspenders and a belt.” 
 
 This will allow members of Congress to be on the record voting for a solution. 
 
 Poll: Obama approval ratings drop, Americans say he's not trustworthy 
 
 When selling Obamacare, the President repeatedly assured Americans they would be able to keep their plans if they liked them. However, many Americans have been getting dropped from their providers because their existing policies don't work with the new regulations. 
 
 Obama has since apologized for people losing their coverage and pledged to find a solution. 
 
 Many in Congress avoiding health care exchanges 
 
 - CNN’s Deirdre Walsh and Mark Preston contributed to this report. 

 Washington state's insurance commissioner says President Obama's proposal on old insurance policeis isn't a good deal for Washington citizens. 
 
 Commissioner Mike Kreidler said on Thursday he won't be allowing insurance companies to extend their old policies that didn't meet the requirements of federal health care reform. 
 
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 An estimated 290,000 Washington residents have received notices that their old insurance policies will be canceled. 
 
 Kreidler, a Democrat, says all of them can get better coverage on the new health care exchange. He says at least half of them will qualify for a subsidy to help them pay the premium. 
 
 President Obama announced Thursday he would allow insurance companies to keep selling their old plans to people whose policies were going to be cancelled. But that decision requires state approval. 

 The House will vote Friday on a GOP bill allowing insurance companies to continue offering consumers their existing, limited plans under President Obama's healthcare law. 
 
 Republican leaders hope the bill, which is expected to pass easily on a largely partisan vote, will raise pressure on the White House over the botched rollout of ObamaCare. 
 
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 The chief drama on Friday is finding out how many Democrats will back the bill. 
 
 The vote puts Democratic leaders in a pickle, caught between the desire to maintain party unity and the propensity to allow threatened rank-and-file members to vote their districts with reelection in mind. 
 
 Highlighting the dilemma, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the minority whip, has not said whether he'll whip the Democrats against the GOP measure. 
 
 At least five House Democrats – Reps. John Barrow John BarrowOur democracy can’t afford to cut legal aid services from the budget Dem files Ethics complaint on Benghazi panel Barrow thanks staff in farewell speech MORE (Ga.), Mike McIntyre (N.C.), Patrick Murphy (Fla.), Kyrsten Sinema (Ariz.) and Collin Peterson (Minn.) – are on record in support of the Republican bill, while many others said Thursday that they remain undecided. 
 
 While House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and other Democratic leaders have had great success uniting the caucus on high-profile votes this year, the blanket has frayed this month as the problems dogging ObamaCare's rollout have mounted and a number of Democrats have threatened to cross the aisle in support of the GOP measure. 
 
 Democrats are preparing legislation to give their members an alternative to voting for the GOP bill sponsored by Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.). His bill would empower insurance companies to continue to sell plans available on the market now, regardless of whether they meet the minimum coverage requirements established by ObamaCare. 
 
 Democrats on Thursday declined to reveal the details of that measure, which is sponsored by Rep. George Miller (D-Calif.). But Pelosi said it will be “complementary to what the president has done.” 
 
 Obama’s proposal, which he said could be done through administration action, would extend the controversial insurance plans only for those currently in them, and only for one year. It also puts the onus on insurers, who would have to choose on their own to offer the plans to the millions of people who have been told their current insurance policies have been, or will be, canceled because they don't meet the law's basic coverage requirements. 
 
 Obama on Thursday put the blame for the rollout problems squarely on his own shoulders – a move aimed at least in part to mitigate the political fallout showering down on congressional Democrats who also championed the law. 
 
 Several Democrats applauded the gesture, but frustration with the White House remained evident. 
 
 “It's been on him all along and look where we are,” Rep. Nick Rahall Nick RahallLikely W.Va. Senate GOP rivals spar in radio appearances West Virginia is no longer Clinton country Solution needed: Rail congestion is stifling economic growth MORE (D-W.Va.) said. 
 
 Still, a number of Democrats said Obama's move takes the pressure off of party members to support the Upton bill. They predicted there would at least be fewer Democratic defections as a result. 
 
 “Had the White House not done this, there was a real risk here – more than a risk – of significant Democratic defections,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly Gerry ConnollyHow the New South became a swing region Three dead after violent clashes at white nationalist rally House Democrats call for transparency in Trump's deregulatory panels MORE (D-Va.). 
 
 The Upton measure will see some GOP defections, too. 
 
 From the right, there have been concerns that the Republican bill would provide a fix to ObamaCare instead of repealing it, as conservatives prefer. Erick Erickson, the influential editor of the RedState blog, panned the GOP proposal this week for that very reason. 
 
 “Obamacare is not fixable,” Erickson wrote Wednesday. “The only solution is to fully repeal it.” 
 
 Yet that sentiment has so far not reverberated much with House Republicans. While Rep. Michele Bachmann Michele BachmannBachmann: Muslim immigrants trying to undermine Western civilization Religious leaders pray over Trump in Oval Office 'Real Housewives' producer 'begging' Conway to join cast MORE (Minn.) has announced her opposition to the bill, most conservatives appear ready to back it. 
 
 “The danger to these millions of people in the small group market and individual policyholders … the danger of leaving them in a gap situation – that's why this bill is so very, very important,” Rep. Phil Gingrey Phil GingreyBeating the drum on healthcare Former GOP chairman joins K Street Former Rep. Gingrey lands on K Street MORE (R-Ga.) said Thursday. 
 
 Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) said one reason Democrats wanted their own alternative on which to vote stemmed from a distrust of anything that Republicans put forward on the healthcare law. 
 
 “When you have a group of folks who continuously try to destroy the legislation, you become very suspicious when you see a ‘fix.’ You wonder what kind of a fix it could be,” Serrano said. 
 
 Peterson, for one, said he's not taking any chances during Friday's vote. 
 
 "I'm for Upton, I'm for Miller and I'm for Obama – I'm supporting all of them," he said. 
 
 "Maybe one of them will work." 
 
 Russell Berman and Jonathan Easley contributed.
– Voting to defang ObamaCare is House Republicans' favorite hobby, but today they'll put forward a health care bill that might actually draw some votes from across the aisle. The bill would allow insurers to keep selling their current plans, even if they don't meet the Affordable Care Act's standards, the Hill reports. At least five Democrats have publicly said they support the measure, and Democratic leadership hasn't even said if it will try to persuade members not to. President Obama yesterday promised a similar fix, but his would be narrower, extending policies only for current holders, and only for one year. That still might dissuade some Democrats from voting for the House bill, but many are openly annoyed at the president. "It's been on him all along, and look where we are," one said. Obama also intends to allow states to opt out of his fix, CNN reports, and Washington state has already announced that it will, according to the AP. Some other states, including Virginia, Kentucky, and Idaho, already require all plans to meet ACA standards.