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To: broncobilly
I think he is talking about being able to shop across state lines and tort reform. Are you calling that a RINO plan?

Yes and no, respectively.

I'm all for tort reform, but this violation of states' rights putting insurance regulation under unconstitutional Federal control doesn't warm my cockles one bit.

Here's why: If health insurers are not making oodles of money now (and they're not), then there isn't much to be saved in this measure. Oh but there is a bundle to be made in mergers and acquisitions! Are you interested in health-care insurers too big to fail?

Setting up an insurance company isn't like automobile manufacturing in that the economies of scale are very different. A holding company can set up fifty insurance subsidiaries with little difficulty. So this is really a non-problem. The real problem is corruption at the state level, but if you think Federalizing the system will fix that I have news for you.

17 posted on 11/05/2009 8:10:08 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Grovelnator Schwarzenkaiser, fashionable fascism one charade at a time.)
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To: Carry_Okie

Letting people buy across state lines won’t federalize the system any more than letting me buy books from Amazon. If Congress wants to create a cabinet level Department of Book Sales they can do that, but that would be the expansion of government, not allowing Amazon to ship books to all 50 states.


42 posted on 11/06/2009 6:54:07 AM PST by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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