The highly touted (by the president) rate commission is out of the bill, per Jonathan Cohn:

So what were the difficult trade-offs? Democrats dropped a proposal to give the federal government power to review insurance rates, because the Senate parliamentarian indicated he would rule such a proposal outside the bounds of the reconciliation process. It’s a popular idea, though, and Democrats could always introduce it as a stand-alone measure.

Until such time, will Obama stop saying the bill will control premium increases?