Health Care Reform

House Repeal of Health Insurance Antitrust Exemption Wins Overwhelmingly

Washington, D.C.–(ENEWSPF)–February 24, 2010.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) issued the following statement upon House passage of H.R. 4626, The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act by a vote of 406-19.

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“The House passage of The Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act will end the mistake Congress made in 1945 when it added an antitrust exemption for insurance companies into the McCarran-Ferguson Act,”said Conyers. “The blanket antitrust exemption created by the…

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