The insurance pool appears to have operated without incident for a number of years.
These measures eliminated the contribution of the federal government to the insurance pool.
He also asserted that no one would want to be left without the bargaining power of an insurance pool.
When those who go without are forced into the insurance pool, they raise the loss experience level and have an upward impact on rates.
"They're the healthiest, and we need them in the insurance pool to help lower costs."
The result could be the end of insurance pools as we know them.
The House bill would encourage states to set up insurance pools or other arrangements to cover such people.
However, more than 30 states have taken steps to help by establishing high-risk insurance pools.
The Clinton plan provided that only companies with more than 5,000 employees should be allowed to form their own insurance pools.
The group helped create the state's first municipal insurance pool.
