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Karen Ignagni is president and CEO of America's Health Insurance Plans, the chief lobbying group for the health insurance sector. Ignagni, 59, who once served as director of the AFL-CIO's department of employee benefits, led the American Association of Health Plans from 1993 to 2003, when it merged with another association to become AHIP. Ignagni regularly testifies before Congress on a variety of healthcare legislation and has been a critic of many provisions included in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.