[Rick_Michael]

Can we say interstate competition democrats!?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

AP to the rescue!

[trumandogz]

Can we say interstate competition democrats!?

Yes, we need interstate competition, but it seems that both parties are against that concept.

[La Lydia]

More. AP. Agitprop.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Can we say interstate competition democrats!

Nah, too freedom friendly, we can't allow it.

[alloysteel]

Another popular misconception. It is not that the firms involved would NOT compete, they are not even ALLOWED to suit up and get out on the field.

There is no trouble finding competition for practically any other type of insurnce, but the barriers and mandates are set so high for health insurance companies, they have little incentive to compete.

As others have suggested, eliminating these artificial restrictions about not selling policies across state lines, but insisting that the pool be contained only to within one locality or other limitations to membership, ends the likelihood of much serious competition ever being encouraged.

The “public option” will do absolutely ZILCH for fostering any competition, it would act muchmore like a bulldozer, in just demolishing any existing commercial structure.

“Public Option” is just a giant HMO.

[traderrob6]

Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2009/08/health-care-common-sense.html

[Oldpuppymax]

Now I wonder if the INTERSTATE COMPETITION BAN has anything to do with that??? Funny. AP doesn’t mention it!!

[grundle]

The article doesn’t say anything about how interstate competition is illegal. So instead of suggesting that the ban be repealed, the article instead suggests that we should adopt even bigger government. This article is an excellent example of media bias.

[donna]

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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[Lorianne]

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.

[r9etb]

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.

[justiceseeker93]

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.)

[dervish]

Where was the government when United Healthcare and Oxford combined?

[Munz]

>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