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Competition lacking among private health insurers
AP ^
| Sat Aug 22, 2009
| By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR
Posted on 08/22/2009 11:10:21 AM PDT by Rick_Michael
WASHINGTON Several studies show that in lots of places, one or two companies dominate the market. Critics say monopolistic conditions drive up premiums paid by employers and individuals.
For Democrats, the answer is a public plan that would compete with private insurers.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: healthcare; obamacare
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To: Rick_Michael; All
There is already federal law that covers monopolies:
“United States antitrust law is the body of laws that prohibits anti-competitive behavior (monopoly) and unfair business practices. Antitrust laws are designed to encourage competition in the marketplace.”
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posted on
08/22/2009 12:49:52 PM PDT
by
donna
(Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies. - Pat Buchanan)
To: long hard slogger; FormerACLUmember; Harrius Magnus; hocndoc; parousia; Hydroshock; skippermd; ...
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posted on
08/22/2009 7:43:35 PM PDT
by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: Rick_Michael
There is not real competition in the insurance market now. State legislatures determine which and how many insurance companies can operate in a state and they also determine what the insurance companies must cover, etc.
Obama is right that there needs to be more competition. Unfortunately, he’s not proposing the right way to get more competition.
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posted on
08/22/2009 7:53:26 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: donna
Ha! The government helps create monopolies.
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posted on
08/22/2009 7:54:03 PM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: trumandogz
Yes, we need interstate competition, but it seems that both parties are against that concept. Really? If you were paying attention during last year's presidential campaign, you would know that McCain and Obama differed sharply on this issue. McCain advocated that Congress allow health insurance policies to be written across state lines, while Obama sneered at the suggestion.
To: Rick_Michael
Can we say interstate competition democrats!? Careful what you ask for ... the mergers that followed the advent of interstate banking were one of the underlying causes of the present big financial mess.
No telling what mischief huge insurance mergers might initiate.
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posted on
08/22/2009 9:25:52 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Rick_Michael; ml/nj; ExTexasRedhead; Yaelle; Atom Smasher; Arizona Carolyn; theothercheek; ...
Leave it to the MSM to do a story about lack of competition in the private health insurance market and not even mention state imposed mandates as a cause of the problem nor writing insurance across state lines as a possible solution! (Only the Dummycrats' public option is the panacea, according to this AP dimwit.)
To: justiceseeker93; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
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posted on
08/22/2009 9:45:22 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: justiceseeker93
To: r9etb
“Careful what you ask for ... the mergers that followed the advent of interstate banking were one of the underlying causes of the present big financial mess.”
u mind explaining that to me?
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posted on
08/22/2009 10:07:37 PM PDT
by
Rick_Michael
(Have no fear "President Government" is here)
To: Rick_Michael
Where was the government when United Healthcare and Oxford combined?
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posted on
08/22/2009 10:29:20 PM PDT
by
dervish
(I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself)
To: trumandogz
Yes, we need interstate competition, but it seems that both parties are against that concept. That's why we need to clean out all incumbents who continue to support the status quo.
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posted on
08/22/2009 10:31:57 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
To: r9etb
... the mergers that followed the advent of interstate banking were one of the underlying causes of the present big financial mess. It wasn't the mergers. It was lack of proper Congressional oversight.
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posted on
08/22/2009 10:34:54 PM PDT
by
airborne
(Don't let history record that, when faced with evil, you did nothing!)
To: justiceseeker93
Really? If you were paying attention during last year's presidential campaign, you would know that McCain and Obama differed sharply on this issue. McCain advocated that Congress allow health insurance policies to be written across state lines... If John McCain Really advocated that Congress allow health insurance policies to be written across state lines, why is it that he never proposed such a bill in the U.S. Senate?
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posted on
08/23/2009 3:37:27 AM PDT
by
trumandogz
(The Democrats are driving us to Socialism at 100 MPH -The GOP is driving us to Socialism at 97.5 MPH)
To: Rick_Michael
>Can we say interstate competition democrats!?<
I agree with you 100%
that is the solution to this problem, but that simple regulation opening the markets does not fit their plan to socialize amerika
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posted on
08/23/2009 7:04:59 AM PDT
by
Munz
(All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.)
To: justiceseeker93
State run media lobbying for the Zero.
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posted on
08/23/2009 7:14:51 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding. -- B.H. Liddell Hart)
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