Myron Bradford Kreidler was born on September 28,1943 and is an American physician and politician serving his sixth term as the eighth Washington Insurance Commissioner.
21 Facts About Mike Kreidler
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Mike Kreidler holds a bachelor's degree and a doctor of optometry from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon.
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Mike Kreidler was employed as an optometrist by Group Health Cooperative of the Puget Sound in the Olympia clinic for twenty years.
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Mike Kreidler served in the Washington State Legislature for 16 years.
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Mike Kreidler was in the Washington House of Representatives from 1976 to 1984 and then the Washington State Senate from 1984 to 1992.
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Mike Kreidler was elected to the United States Congress as a Representative from the of Washington in 1992.
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Mike Kreidler was defeated by Republican Randy Tate in 1994.
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Mike Kreidler served on the NWPPC until 1998 when he was appointed Regional Director for the United States Department of Health and Human Services's Region 10 office in Seattle, Washington, serving in that post until 2000, when he resigned in order to seek election to the office of Washington State Insurance Commissioner.
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Mike Kreidler was first elected as insurance commissioner in 2000.
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Mike Kreidler was re-elected to a sixth term in 2020.
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Mike Kreidler retired as a lieutenant colonel from the Army Reserves with 20 years of service.
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Mike Kreidler has focused on health reform most of his career and worked to implement the Affordable Care Act in Washington state.
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Mike Kreidler was the first insurance commissioner to reject President Obama's proposal to give insurers another year to sell pre-Affordable Care Act plans and testified before Congress on the law's impact on Washington state.
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Mike Kreidler has opposed efforts by the Trump administration to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, including coverage for pre-existing conditions and limiting the sale of short-term medical plans.
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In 2019, Mike Kreidler proposed legislation banning the practice of surprise medical billing.
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Mike Kreidler has taken action against fake health sharing ministries and in 2019, he fined one company and its affiliate more than $1 million for selling sham health sharing ministry memberships in Washington state to thousands of consumers.
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Since 2007, Mike Kreidler has chaired the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Climate Change and Global Warming Work Group.
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Mike Kreidler led a successful push for insurers to disclose if and how they are preparing for the potential risks associated with climate change.
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The report alleged that he had asked for "unusual favors" from non-white employees and that Mike Kreidler had been "demeaning or rude" in interactions.
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Mike Kreidler is a member of several professional and fraternal organizations.
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Mike Kreidler retired from the United States Army Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel, after serving on active duty as an optometrist during the Vietnam and first Persian Gulf wars.