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HHS ISSUES no AGENT MLR DESPITE NAIC VOTE
MEDIA REPORTS ON MLR RULE
NAIC TAKES PRO-AGENT STANCE
NAIC/MLR Update
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) voted on November 22 to adopt a resolution calling on both Congress and HHS to fix the MLR requirements in PPACA as they relate to agents and brokers. The resolution can be read here and the NAIC’s statement on the resolution can be found here.
Many of you have inquired as to how specific commissioners voted. The roll call is as follows:
Voting to approve: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming and American Samoan Islands.
Opposed: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, the Northern Mariana Islands and Puerto Rico.
Abstentions: Maine, Montana, South Dakota, Texas and Virginia.
Not present or not voting were Iowa (for procedural reasons), Guam, New Mexico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Wisconsin.
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