On October 21, 2009, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, by a 20-to-9 vote, approved a bill to repeal some aspects of the insurance industry’s federal antitrust exemption that has been in place since the enactment of the McCarran-Ferguson Act in 1945. Known as the Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act, the bill seeks to remove the exemption as it applies to health insurance and medical malpractice insurance companies for price fixing, bid rigging, and market allocations.

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