Quincy
2009-06-27 08:39:46
“It seems to me that what private insurance companies are afraid of is competition”
Yes they are. That’s why they go for ever more restrictive regulations on themselves. However, if you want to talk competition, a public option explicitly designed to undercut private insurance isn’t. In fact, what Washington would be doing with the public option would be punished by anti-trust laws if done by a private company. Just like Social Security, the government does something that, done by a private citizen, would be wholly illegal.
