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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Mar. 3, 2009

Exemption Exceptions

Under Obama, insurance companies could be in danger of losing the antitrust exemption they've had for almost 60 years.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Paul Riehle and Jia-Ming Shang

In a series of statements and a position paper to the American Antitrust Institute in 2008, President Barack Obama expressed more interest than any other candidate in recent memory about antitrust policies and his desire to increase antitrust enforcement if he were to be elected. Although the position paper to the American Antitrust Institute made a number of broad promises to strengthen antitrust enf...

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