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S 1681 111th Congress Senate

Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009

Official title: A bill to ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations to t… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: A bill to ensure that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers cannot engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations to the detriment of competition and consumers.

Introduced: October 13, 2009 See on congress.gov
Commerce Civil actions and liabilityCompetition and antitrustHealth care costs and insuranceHealth personnelInsurance industry and regulation
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 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
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To President
Became law
Oct 14, 2009
Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
Sep 17, 2009
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9556)
Sep 17, 2009
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9556)
Sep 17, 2009
Introduced in Senate
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 Latest action October 14, 2009

Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009 - Declares that nothing in the McCarran-Ferguson Act shall be construed to permit health insurance issuers or issuers of medical malpractice insurance to engage in any form of price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations in connection with providing health insurance coverage or coverage for medical malpractice claims or actions.

Makes this Act inapplicable to any information gathering and rate setting activities of any state commission of insurance or any other state regulatory entity with authority to set insurance rates.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • HR 3596 Identical bill Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 7
All 7 Democratic 7
D
Gillibrand, Kirsten E.
New York · Feb 22, 2010
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Bennet, Michael F.
Colorado · Nov 5, 2009
 D
Whitehouse, Sheldon
Rhode Island · Oct 14, 2009
 D
Wyden, Ron
Oregon · Oct 13, 2009
 D
Cantwell, Maria
Washington · Sep 17, 2009
 D
Durbin, Richard J.
Illinois · Sep 17, 2009
 D
Schumer, Charles E.
New York · Sep 17, 2009
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 1681: Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009. 111th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1681/
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"S. 1681: Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2009." 111th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1681/.
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S. 1681, 111th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/111-S-1681/.
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