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The market for insurance in the US is somewhat very different from the other world. In most every other line of business, companies are allowed to compete with each other across state lines. This helps to keep pricing to lower levels and the quality of the product to higher levels and protect the consumer. But [...]

Let’s leave the politics of healthcare reform to one side and focus on a proposal to change the law to allow free market competition between insurers in different states. A policy consistently mentioned by the Republican party is to break the state monopolies in the insurance market. Since the 1800’s, the individual states have claimed [...]