Health Insurers Hope for 'Responsible' Health Care
National Underwriter (Life and Health Financial (11/11/02) p.41; Brostoff, Steven
Health Insurance Association of America President
Donald Young says that the healthcare industry is hopeful that
the federal government will begin focusing on incentives for low
income and middle income families seeking health insurance
coverage, especially since the mid-term elections won Republicans
a majority in the Senate. Many insurers are viewing the results
of the election as a rejection of personal injury lawyers because
only two of the candidates backed by the Association of Trial
Lawyers of America won their races. While health insurers are
hopeful that Republicans will hold the terrorism insurance
bill--which calls for a study of whether the group life insurance
industry will benefit from federal assistance in the event of
further terrorist attacks--until the next legislative session,
ACLI Senior Vice President, Government Affairs Phil Anderson says
that it will likely be passed in this year's lame duck session.