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Senate Judiciary Committee Considers Lifting Antitrust Exemption for Health Insurers

By | 10.14.09 | 1:12 pm

As the debate over health care reform rages on, there’s been almost no attention to the fact that health and medical malpractice insurance companies since 1945 have been exempt from the federal antitrust laws aimed at keeping every other private market competitive. The McCarran-Ferguson Act has allowed insurance More…