Health insurance agents and brokers are mobilizing to persuade Congress to get producer commissions out of health insurance minimum medical loss ratio (MLR) calculations.

The groups girding for battle over the new MLR rule include the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), Arlington, Va.; the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors (NAIFA), Falls Church, Va.; the Council of Insurance Agents and Brokers (CIAB), Washington; and the IndependentInsurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA), Alexandria, Va.

"NAHU is concerned that this rule will lead to severe market disruption in the individual and small-group health insurance markets," NAHU Chief Executive Janet Trautwein says in a statement.

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