GOP may not befriend self-ins., SIIA execs say. (Republican Congress expected to favor state regulation of self-insurance, according to Self-Insurance Institute of America)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, November, 1996 by Katz, David M.

DALLAS - Those with a vested interest in preserving the federal regulation of self-insurance of health benefits can't assume the Republicans are their friends, officials of the Self-Insurance Institute of America say. Speaking on the day after election day at a legislative update session at the annual conference of the Irvine, Calif.-based SIIA, James A.

Kinder, the group's chief executive officer, cautioned members against assuming the Republican retention of both houses of Congress meant that the self-insurance industry was headed for a "great legislative year." "You have to remember that [Republicans] are very sensitive to state-right issues," he said. This might lead them to over-turn the preemption from state insurance regulation that self-insured...

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