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  Put 'Em Up: Why All the Discord and Confusion over the MLR at the NAIC?

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  March 7, 2012

  After a series of unusual decisions and signs of infighting, some some are left to wonder if the NAIC is showing the stress fractures that are bound to result when a group dedicated to state insurance regulation finds itself in an era of relentlessly encroaching federal oversight.

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  NAIC Narrowly Passes Resolution Urging HHS to Exempt Agent Commissions from PPACA Standard

  By Elizabeth Festa  |  November 22, 2011

  As a divided Plenary body at the NAIC votes 26 to 20, with 5 abstentions, to tell the Department of Health and Human Services to exempt agent commissions from medical loss ratios, an even greater question looms: Will the HHS even consider a mandate from state regulators?