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Hearing Information Hearing on: H.R. 3596, the "Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009" Thursday 10/08/2009 - 11:30 A.M. 2237 Rayburn House Office Building Subcommittee on the Courts and Competition Policy By Direction of the Chairman Hearing Documentation WebCast Related ...
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Rep. Diana DeGette: Tearing Down the Barriers to Competition
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs. Since 1945, the health insurance industry has enjoyed an exemption from federal antitrust law. This exemption prevents the application of federal antitrust laws to the business of insurance, provided that the activity is regulated by state law and is not designed to boycott, coerce, or intimidate. Despite the fact that the health insurance industry is highly concentrated, the federal government is handcuffed in its ...
Tearing down the barriers to competition (Rep. Diana DeGette)
Congress Blog —
... By tearing down the barriers to competition, for example, by repealing an antitrust exemption and creating a strong public insurance option, Congress can achieve the goals of lower costs and improved health care outcomes. As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs. Since 1945, the health insurance industry has enjoyed an exemption from federal antitrust law . This exemption prevents the application of federal antitrust laws to the business of insurance, provided ...
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Dems eye insurance industry's antitrust protection
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news.yahoo.com 10/21/2009 — AP - Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws as part of the debate over health care, according to congressional officials, the latest evidence of a deepening struggle ...
House Vote On Insurance Industry Antitrust Exemption Coming
huffingtonpost.com 10/17/2009 — The battle against the health insurance industry is steadily intensifying. House Democrats have formally scheduled a vote to revoke the industry's cherished anti-trust protection, according to a statement from Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers ...
Panel Votes to End Insurance Antitrust Exemption (Update2)
bloomberg.com 10/21/2009 — Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. House Judiciary Committee voted to repeal the insurance industry’s federal antitrust exemption in a move aimed at spurring competition and controlling the cost of premiums. The panel, in a 20-9 vote, approved ...
Obama Attacks Health Insurance Industry
businessweek.com 10/18/2009 — President Barack Obama is no longer making nice with the health insurance industry. In his weekly radio and internet address on Saturday he harshly attacked insurers for trying to block health care reform efforts, charging the industry with "filling ...
Antitrust and Health Reform
theincidentaleconomist.com 10/15/2009 — This post is co-authored by Austin Frakt and Ian Crosby . In the wake of AHIP’s promotion of the report sham study it commissioned from PricewaterouseCoopers (PWC), Senate Democrats are pushing to repeal a 1945 statute that partially exempts insurers ...
Move To Dump Insurers From Antitrust Exemption Gains
themoderatevoice.com 10/21/2009 — The House Judiciary Committee Wednesday voted 20-9 to remove federal antitrust exemptions the health insurance industry has enjoyed since the 1940s. Majority leader Harry Reid said a companion bill will be voted on soon in the Senate.
Finally the Democrats in Congress have showed some spunk. ...
House Democrats to unveil health bill —
Reuters: Politics 29 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives finished work on Wednesday on a healthcare bill that includes a government-run insurance plan, requires individuals to buy health coverage and imposes a surtax on the wealthy to ...
Rich face 5.4 percent tax under House health bill —
Reuters: Politics 29 days ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives' healthcare bill released on Thursday raises most revenue by taxing individuals making $500,000 or more, but also tightens rules for corporate accounting and takes aim at foreign companies ...
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