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Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) filed an amendment to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) (the “PPACA”) on December 1, 2009, that would repeal the exemption from federal antitrust laws for the health insurance and medical malpractice insurance industries
In our previous blog on 13 February 2009 (see our previous blog here), we wrote that the Competition Commission proposed prohibiting the sale of all PPI alongside a credit product eg a loan within 7 days of selling a credit product to that customer
Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy introduced legislation to eliminate the federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies
