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Federal laws are hampering state attempts to reduce the number of people who lack health coverage, according to Kansas Insurance commissioner Sandy Praeger.

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act keeps states from collecting data from self-insured employers, and states cannot involved the self-insured employers in any new state programs, Praeger said here at a meeting organization by the National Association of Health Underwriters, Arlington, Va.

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