[Man50D]

They are not regulating health care. They are regulating interstate commerce.

They are trying to regulate the health care industry. The ICC only pertains to the transportation of goods across state lines. It does not pertain to regulating products once they enter a state. The ICC also doesn't apply because people cannot purchase insurance across state lines.

[mad_as_he$$]

Yes, they are trying to regulate the HC industry but they will use the commerce clause as well as the “general welfare” clause to do it. I read ALL of the House bill. There is a great amount of verbage talking about the “inequities” from State to State but that a person can travel from one State to another where there different licensing requirements not being an “equatable” system. They are also trying to use the fact that drugs and equipment are made in one State and therefore they can control how it is used in another one. Real stretch and expansion of many things already decided by SCOTUS. It is such a tangled web it will take years to even sort out.

[Hostage]

You may be right but I think your point is weak or incomplete. The national insurers such as United Healthcare (which BTW I do not like so much but would back their right to remain free of federal government interference), such insurers transact business and direct products across state lines, although they must comply with state regulations.

But I think an argument can be made that such national insurers are subject to ICC because of their multistate presence.