Democratic leaders are eyeing cuts to private Medicare plans to help pay for their domestic agenda, risking a political backlash and a showdown with health insurance companies that stand to lose billions of dollars in one of their most lucrative lines of business.

The growing focus on generating savings from the private insurers in the Medicare Advantage program comes as Democrats look for ways to pay for their roughly $2 trillion domestic spending package, and after repeated efforts to curb...

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