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House introduces health insurance bill to repeal antitrust exemption

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
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  • February 24 2010

On Monday, February 22, Representatives Tom Perriello (D-Va.) and Betsy Markey (D-Colo.) introduced H.R. 4626, the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act, to repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act antitrust exemption for the business of health insurance

Repeal of antitrust exemption gains traction as House and Senate Democrats reconcile healthcare reform bills

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • January 8 2010

U.S. House Representatives Peter DeFazio, (D-OR) and Gene Taylor (D-MS) drafted a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in support of repealing the antitrust exemption under the McCarran Ferguson Act for health insurers and medical liability insurers

Partial repeal of the insurance antitrust exemption introduced as amendment to Senate healthcare bill

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • December 4 2009

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

House Committee votes to eliminate insurers’ federal antitrust exemption

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
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  • USA
  • -
  • October 22 2009

On October 21, the House Judiciary Committee voted to repeal health and medical malpractice insurers’ long-standing federal antitrust exemption

Legislation introduced to eliminate federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies

  • Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 17 2009

Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy introduced legislation to eliminate the federal antitrust exemption for health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies