{"id":603295,"date":"2009-10-21T10:14:18","date_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"0f893ddf-72fe-48aa-a1f1-a5828794a683"},"modified":"2009-10-21T10:14:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-21T14:14:18","slug":"senate-democrats-continue-pursuit-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/603295","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Continue Pursuit Of Insurers&#8217; Antitrust Exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to congressional officials, the latest evidence of a deepening struggle over President Barack Obama's effort to overhaul the health care industry,\" the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/washington\/articles\/2009\/10\/21\/dems_eye_insurance_industrys_antitrust_protection\/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Latest+news\">Associated Press\/Boston Globe<\/a> reports. Top senators, including Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., planned to announce their strategy Wednesday. <br \/><br \/>The change would bring new regulations unto the industry, which views the push as a revenge attempt in response to recent insurance industry criticisms of the broader health reform bills. An industry group said insurers are already among the most heavily regulated companies (Espo, 10\/21). <br \/><br \/>Sponsors of a similar bill in the House will attempt to add it to the much broader health reform legislation when it passes through the Rules Committee, <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/63997-democrats-want-to-revoke-insurances-antitrust-exemption-in-healthcare-bill\">The Hill<\/a> reports. The House Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the bill Wednesday. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., a co-sponsor of the bill, said, \"There are only two industries with that exemption: insurance and Major League Baseball. If it ever had a rationale, it\u2019s no longer operative\" (Soraghan, 10\/21).<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/BHdpTkri_I4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Top Senate Democrats intend to try to strip the health insurance industry of its exemption from federal antitrust laws, according to congressional officials, the latest evidence of a deepening struggle over President Barack Obama&#8217;s effort to overhaul the health care industry,&#8221; the Associated Press\/Boston Globe reports. Top senators, including Harry Reid, D-Nev., the majority leader, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-603295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2wWz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}