[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 20]
[House]
[Page 27125]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




           HEALTH INSURANCE FROM THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS

  (Mr. DeFAZIO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. DeFAZIO. Republicans are craven in their obeisance to their 
health industry patrons who are so generous at campaign time. They are 
saying that they're going to offer a new national policy; they're going 
to free up the insurance industries to offer new national policies with 
no antitrust law from the Federal Government, no regulation by the 
States. They've come up with a new loophole for abuses. They have 
defined on page 122 of their bill, the Northern Mariana Islands--that 
is Jack Abramoff's lobby client--with their sweat shops and sex shops 
as a State so insurance companies can go to the Northern Mariana 
Islands and the only consumer protections that will apply for a policy 
you buy--one of these new, great, cheap national policies--will be the 
laws of the Mariana Islands. Buy a policy in Oregon, call the Mariana 
Islands insurance commissioner, whoever that might be--maybe Jack 
Abramoff when he gets out of jail--and they'll help you out.

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