You and Your Health Care Lobbyist

Edmund Haislmaier / November 03, 2009

As critics have repeatedly point out, once Congress starts specifying minimum mandated coverage requirements for health insurance there will be no end to the lobbying to maximize the “minimum” that you will have to pay for in your health plan.

Well, it turns out Congress is already behaving exactly as predicted — and they haven’t even passed a bill yet!

The earlier House “Tri-Committee Bill” (H.R. 3200) lists in Section 122(b) the “Minimum Services to be Covered.” The new “Pelosi Bill” (H.R. 3962) includes the same language, only this time it appears as Section 222(b), and — ta-da! — it includes more required benefits! (more…)