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Patrick Leahy: “The legislation I introduced, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, only repeals the…”

On the recordOctober 13, 2009
The legislation I introduced, the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, only repeals the McCarran-Ferguson exemption for what I think we would all agree are egregious violations of the antitrust laws--price fixing and bid rigging and market allocation. Why would somebody object to that?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy defends his legislation aimed at repealing antitrust exemptions for health insurance.

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