Affordable Care Act

• Could Promoting Efficiency Negatively Affect Med-Mal Insurers?

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  June 15, 2011

  One aspect of healthcare reform promotes the formation of provider organizations aimed at improving the quality of care and cost, but medical-malpractice insurers worry it could have a negative impact on their business, a recent broker’s report suggests.

• Protesters Take On Lobbyists At NAIC In Battle Over Medical Loss Ratio Rules

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 30, 2010

  Protesters who say insurance company lobbyists are working to undermine state efforts to implement the federal health care reform law interrupted the summer meeting here of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

• Health Care MLR Issue Prompts Discussion, Protest At NAIC Meeting

  By Mark E. Ruquet, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  August 16, 2010

  A meeting of insurance regulators and state legislators was interrupted by protestors who say health insurance company lobbyists are working to block states' efforts to implement the recently passed health care reform legislation.