I believe state regulators need the same authority to regulate health insurance rates to prevent abusive increases.
Under the city code, the commissioner has the power to regulate health hazards without legislation.
States regulate health insurance and have sued insurers for anticompetitive conduct.
Of those, 170 pages govern firings, 420 regulate health and security, 50 temporary work and 85 collective negotiations.
We do not have any authority to regulate health insurance rates under Louisiana law".
Attempts to regulate health care with excessive lawsuits have failed patients by inviting abuse and inefficiency.
However, Senate moderates of both parties complained today that the Democrats' bill would usurp the states' historic power to regulate health insurance.
The compromise tries to address the concerns of Senate Republicans who want to protect states' rights, notably the right of states to regulate health insurance.
In July 1999, by a vote of 53 to 47, the Senate passed a Republican bill to regulate health maintenance organizations and insurance companies.
Senate Republicans said they had limited the scope of their bill because they did not want to usurp the states' authority to regulate health insurance.
"We're going to keep doctors first, lawyers second," Mr. Frist told reporters of the Republican plan to regulate health maintenance organizations.
