If you look at the American health insurance industry under today’s current environment (with anti-trust) companies are merging and raising rates because of increasing regulation by states, e.g., pre-existing conditions regulations, disallowance of underwriting before writing coverage, etc.
Repealing the anti-trust exemption does not change the current financial state of insurance payers, it makes the single-payer system almost inevitable regardless or not whether Americans want it. If we want to end up with a giant single payer-plan, we will never get even the services provided by the private companies who have public stock to sell.
How many Americans are employed by the health insurance industry - and their suppliers... soon, unemployed or worse employed by the government, just like the car cos and banks.
Yes, I’m guessing the repeal would be a good thing if the market were otherwise healthy — i.e. not totally distorted by govt regulation and bullying. But that is obviously not the case.
Most likely the repeal is about making the healthcare providers more subject to arbitrary government power than to competitive market forces.
When you have a bunch of Democrats voting for something like this, you can bet it’s not about invigorating the free market. It’s about clearing the way for government healthcare.
Mark Levin analyzed this on his show a while back (or maybe he was reading someone else’s analysis, I can’t remember) and his conclusion was that repealing the anti-trust exemption would be a bad thing.