[tahiti]

"Amen. While I am normally dismissive of anti-trust suits, getting a whole industry to fix laws in certain states to restrict competition is exactly the kind of action that should be taken in an anti-trust case."

I hope you make the same contention about accounting, lawyering, and medical practicing, as well.

[rhombus]

"Amen. While I am normally dismissive of anti-trust suits, getting a whole industry to fix laws in certain states to restrict competition is exactly the kind of action that should be taken in an anti-trust case."

I hope you make the same contention about accounting, lawyering, and medical practicing, as well.

I would also expect to hear no complaints about free-trade, outsourcing and evil Walmart.

[Polybius]

"Amen. While I am normally dismissive of anti-trust suits, getting a whole industry to fix laws in certain states to restrict competition is exactly the kind of action that should be taken in an anti-trust case."

I hope you make the same contention about accounting, lawyering, and medical practicing, as well.

My State regulates my medical practice in terms of licensing and quality issues. They likewise regulate realtors in terms of licensing and quality issues.

However, medical price-fixing is illegal and there is nothing that prevents me (other than common sense business considerations) from offering medical services at 10% of what other physicians charge.

If all the M.D.'s in our State got together to ensure that our medical charges never got below a certain figure, the Feds would be on us like pit-bulls on a pork chop.