2009-09-23

2009-09-23 06:51 am

"‘It is too disrupting" - Axelrod opposing insurance competition across state lines

From an interview of David Axelrod by Wolf Blitzer, in which the CNN correspondent presses Axelrod on why not allow health insurance to be sold across state lines.
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2009-09-23 11:21 am

Enforcing anti-trust on health insurers?

"House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy, Representative Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), and Energy and Commerce Committee Vice-Chair Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) today introduced the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, legislation to end the broad antitrust exemption enjoyed by health insurance companies."
http://judiciary.house.gov/news/090917_1.html