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H.R. 143 115th Congress House

Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2017

Official title: To prohibit anticompetitive activities and to provide that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers are subject to the antitrust laws… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To prohibit anticompetitive activities and to provide that health insurance issuers and medical malpractice insurance issuers are subject to the antitrust laws of the United States, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 3, 2017 See on congress.gov
Health Competition and antitrustHealth care costs and insuranceInsurance industry and regulation
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Jan 23, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.
Jan 3, 2017
Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
Jan 3, 2017
Introduced in House
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 Latest action January 23, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial And Antitrust Law.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2017

This bill prohibits the McCarran-Ferguson Act from being construed to permit health insurance or medical malpractice insurance issuers to engage in price fixing, bid rigging, or market allocations in connection with providing health insurance or medical malpractice coverage.

This bill amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to provide that nothing in that Act modifies, impairs, or supersedes the operation of antitrust laws with respect to the business of health insurance. Prohibitions of unfair methods of competition apply to the business of health insurance without regard to whether the business is for profit.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 143: Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-143/
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"H.R. 143: Health Insurance Industry Antitrust Enforcement Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-143/.
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H.R. 143, 115th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/115-HR-143/.
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