Now that President Clinton's health care proposal is decomposing.

Now that President Clinton's health care proposal is decomposing, reform efforts could take single of two paths: states could become the laboratories of democracy or be bypassed altogether in an effort to allow companies to avoid their sumptuous regulations. The Republicans have chosen the latter passage

"We are troubl that [the legislation] does not recognize the great strides states have already made in health insurance reforms," says lee-side Douglass, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners and the insurance commissioner from Arkansas. He adds that cases of insurance fraud would rise because regulatory sways would be lost.

The Employee Retirement Income and Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) allows large multistate companies that self-insure to avoid the patchwork of state laws and operate with single in kind uniform health care policy. more [i]or[/i] less governors want that law changed likewise that those companies can be taxed to provide for the uninsured.

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