NU Online News Service, Sept. 29, 3:48 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON–Consumer representatives have asked the Senate Finance Committee to drop a proposed provision of health care reform legislation giving state regulators rule-making authority to draft health insurance standards.

The group said the nation's insurance regulators should be kept from the process because they are too close to the insurance industry and have a conflict of interest.

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