United States Congressman Elijah E. Cummings
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February 22, 2010 Paul Kincaid, 202-225-4289
Cummings Votes To Strip Health Insurance Anti-Trust Exemption
Congressman supports treating health insurance organizations like most other American companies.
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It will also give the American people more choice in their health care by requiring health insurance companies to compete fairly and adhere to the same anti-trust laws as other companies.
“Insurance companies have been able to avoid legal accountability for price fixing, dividing up territories among themselves, and sabotaging their competitors in the marketplace in order to gain a monopoly for decades,” said Cummings. “Marylanders have paid higher premiums, had a lower quality of coverage and have been limited in their insurance choices.
“In
Stripping the anti-trust exemption from insurance companies was part of H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which was passed by the House of Representatives last year.
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