The Obama administration, in its push to get the House to vote for the Senate’s health care reform bill unchanged, is pointing to the serious issue of lack of competition in the health insurance market as a powerful reason for reform.
The House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which last week probed Anthem’s increases in Calif., seeks testimony and records from four other health insurers.
The House bill to repeal the insurance industry’s exemption from federal antitrust law passed so overwhelmingly last week that a bipartisan majo.
With a vote of 406 to 19, the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would make federal antitrust laws applicable to the insurance industry. For 64 years, the insurance industry has…
The House voted Wednesday to strip health insurance companies of their exemption from federal antitrust laws, a Democratic measure that could resonate with public concerns about insurers but that has an uncertain future in the Senate. …
