Olympia Snowe: “It is important to emphasize in this amendment as we have drafted it includes a provision that starts out with automatic…”

“It is important to emphasize in this amendment as we have drafted it includes a provision that starts out with automatic designation: That a health insurance issuer shall be deemed to be a designated decisionmaker for purposes of subparagraph (A) with respect to participants and beneficiaries of an employer or plan sponsor. That is important to emphasize, and it automatically occurs so we remove the ambiguity, extra steps, cost, and so on, with respect to that particular requirement.”