John Graham – Blue-Sky Thinking on Health Reform: An Interstate Compact for Health Insurance
Key Points:
Health insurance is the only line of insurance regulated by the federal government, but federal control has created and deepened the health crisis.
Obamacare attempts to conscript states to do the dirty work of limiting people’s choice of health benefits.
States have ensured portability and competition in other lines of insurance through an “interstate compact,” a treaty of sorts between the states defined by the U.S. Constitution.
Including health insurance in an interstate compact would effectively demonstrate that states are ready, willing, and able to regulate portable, individually owned, health insurance.
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