My LTTE re. interstate health insurance was printed!

[jmowreader]

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/jul/27/no-to-interstate-exploitation/

This COULD make life entertaining, considering I work for a competing newspaper, but the Big Boss sez he has no problems with non-editorial employees using their First Amendment rights.

If you don't want to click, here's the backstory: Cathy McMorris Rodgers is the congressperson from Spokane, and she's a Republican. There are quite a few people running in the primary against her (Washington has a law that could provide REALLY entertaining results: the top two vote-getters from the primary, regardless of party, are the ones who go on to the general election...meaning you could have two Repukes tearing themselves apart in the general while we sit back and take notes.) and all the Republicans, plus one guy from the "Constitution Party," say they'd allow interstate sales of health insurance as a way to lower the cost of insurance. Well...allowing a bank to compete for credit card business from out-of-state is what got us the 79.85-percent ultrasubprime credit card, the 36-percent standard interest rate on store credit cards, and every other interest abuse that's been allowed to happen since South Dakota repealed its usury law. You don't NEED to have a credit card--it's possible to do everything with a debit card that's hooked into the Visa or MasterCard system that you can do with a credit card--but you do need health insurance, so this is potentially worse.

Hopefully this LTTE has enlightened these folks on the Law of Unintended Consequences.

[sandnsea]

1. That's a very very good letter

You know I always opposed the interstate plan because it would allow companies to bypass state laws that guarantee certain benefits.

But your point is much better and will make more sense to the anti-regulation people. This is what I mean when I say you've got to target your message correctly. I didn't hear this argument one time during the health care debate, maybe I just missed it, but it's really too bad if it never got out there at all.

:applause: