Just setting the table for the incremental Socialized Medicine takeover to come....
Right. By all means, let’s do all we can to keep rates up so we DO end up with government deathcare.
At the end of WWII and for about thirty years following, there was valid reason for the exemption, but there hasn’t been for the last thirty years. The entire anti-trust exemption has evolved into an annuity for lawyers. Rates were able to be kept artificially high to feed the lawsuits and the anti-trust exemption was a big piece of the infrastructure needed to maintain high revenue streams for the beast. Anytime you eliminate or minimize competition in production and supply, the price of the product will rise. This is one of the most fundamental principles of economics.
What troubles me is doing this BEFORE changing the law about buying across state lines. Never trust the rats, or many of the pubs either, for that matter.