[Peace-discuss] Fw: Insurance Companies Should Compete

Thu Dec 3 15:25:32 CST 2009

--- On Thu, 12/3/09, Patrick Leahy <info at leahyforvermont.com> wrote:

From: Patrick Leahy <info at leahyforvermont.com>
Subject: Insurance Companies Should Compete
To: "Jenifer Cartwright" <jencart13 at yahoo.com>
Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 1:55 PM

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Dear Jenifer,
On Tuesday, I took to the Senate floor and formally filed my amendment to repeal the antitrust exemption for health insurance companies.

I look forward to debating this critical measure during our deliberations on the broader health care reform bill. After all, to bring insurance costs down, we've got to introduce more competition in the marketplace -- and my amendment will do just that.

Already, nearly 40,000 members of our Leahy online community -- including you -- have emailed their Senators urging support of this amendment, and 18 of my colleagues have now co-sponsored it.

But we need more Senators to join us to get this critical amendment passed.

Click here to invite your friends & family to forward an email to their Senators too -- and urge them to support our amendment to repeal the antitrust exemption for health insurance companies!

Our amendment will introduce antitrust oversight to the health insurance industry, ruling out of bounds egregious anti-competitive conduct like price fixing that harms hard-working American families and raises costs. It's an outrageous loophole that must be closed.
The health insurance industry should compete on a level playing field just like every other business in America, large and small, so that consumers know that the price they're being quoted is the product of a free and fair marketplace.
That's why our amendment repealing the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption is so important -- but I need your help, right now, to get it passed.

Click here to invite your friends & family to forward an email to their Senators too -- and urge them to support our amendment to repeal the antitrust exemption for health insurance companies!

As we move forward with debate on the health care reform bill, much of our discussion will be about bringing costs down while expanding and improving insurance coverage.

This amendment is a vital part of that effort, and we've got to do everything we can to get it passed. Please invite your friends & family to email their Senators now.

Thanks so much for your help.

Sincerely,

Patrick Leahy
U.S. Senator

P.S. A vote on our amendment could come in a matter of days, so please take a few seconds, right now, to make your voice heard. Please invite your friends & family to email their Senators now.

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