I was moved by Senator Burr's opening statement in the October 21 hearing; and honored that you, Mr. Chairman, would see...
I thank you both, and we are not beating a hasty departure based on your testimony, but based on the fact we have run ou...
Health insurance monopolies should not be making health care decisions for patients--and for doctors.
I will also ask consent to put in the record a resolution from the National Association of Attorneys General...
addressing this problem is crucial to health care reform and does require legislative action
I will submit my questions for the record, and we will keep the record open for others.
But as Assistant Attorney General Varney testified, this kind of sharing, blind sharing, would be allowed.
Without a repeal of the antitrust exemption, insurance companies will continue to have the power to gouge patients and d...
So I urge all of my colleagues on this Committee and in the Senate to get this out of Committee as quickly as possible a...
The legislation I introduced, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, only repeals the McCarran-Ferguso...
Antitrust oversight in these industries would provide consumers with confidence that insurance companies are not colludi...
I do not see how somebody can say with a straight face that they should not be subject to the same antitrust laws as eve...
I want to commend him for holding this hearing.
Basically what we are saying is everybody should be subjected to the laws.
I believe it would lead to more competition and lower insurance costs, and basically what it says is that nobody is abov...
The insurance companies apparently do, according to what Senator Reid and others have said.
There is no reason why the insurance companies should have exemption from antitrust laws, this blanket exemption.
I will ask consent to put in the record a letter from the American Hospital Association...
