Mike Kreidler is Washington’s eighth insurance commissioner. A former member of Congress, he was first elected as insurance commissioner in 2000 and was re-elected to a third term in 2008. He has earned a reputation both as a staunch advocate for consumer protection and as a fair and balanced regulator. Among his accomplishments:

Cutting excessive rate increases on home and auto policies by more than $300 million since 2000.
Helping individual consumers recover about $10 million a year in denied and delayed payments on their insurance policies.
Restoring troubled insurers to financial solvency.
Rejecting a bid by one of the state's largest non-profit health insurers, Premera Blue Cross, to become a for-profit company.
Regaining national accreditation for the office.
Successfully fighting attempts by big out-of-state insurance companies to strip consumers of their legal protections,
And working with state lawmakers to close a waiting-period loophole that was endangering the lives of organ-transplant patients.

Throughout his career, Commissioner Kreidler has been passionate about achieving health care coverage for all Washingtonians. His major health insurance reform push in 2009 is the Guaranteed Health Benefit Plan -- providing catastrophic coverage and key preventive care to all residents.

From the boardroom of his local school district to the state Legislature and halls of Congress, Kreidler has represented the state’s citizenry for more than 30 years.

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