Papantonio: Force the Insurance Industry to Operate in Free Market

For decades, the insurance industry has been able to operate outside the legal reach of the federal government when it comes to things like price-fixing and anti-trust laws. But the proposed reforms to healthcare in America could take away that exemption for them. The GOP is now insisting that this will force small businesses to close their doors, and that forcing the insurance companies to finally compete in the free market will actually drive costs up. Mike Papantonio appears on Your World with Neil Cavuto to debate the issue.

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• Free Market
• Insurance Industry
• McCarren Ferguson
• Anti Trust
• Price Fixing
• Mike Papantonio
• Fox News
• Lies
• Propaganda
• Air America
• Ring of Fire
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[PoliticalSkeptic]

She kept saying " you can use republican buzz words" like competition but she offered no argument to refute it.

[BunnyandAl]

Get em, Pap!

[95tahoe1]

buying health care in another state has its problems too. If i buy a policy in new mexico and i live in new york. A Xray in new mexico cost $35 but in new york its $75. Do you think the company will be ok with that? they would loose money with low premiums and higher payout from different regions. So anyone in this would be faced with higher rates to cover for the out of state purchase.

[mystic324]

Free market and the idea of selling insurance across state lines. This is the popular idea that the insurance companies are pushing through their republican talking heads. Why? Because then they could do the same thing that the credit card companies have done which is move to a state that has little or no consumer protections. That is why almost all credit card companies are based out of Delaware! Unless we have a national regulatory commission to protect consumers, this is a red herring.

[Orion1232]

yohaneuano: Yea, basically. People are essentially slaves. The difference is, we are "allowed" the "luxury" of credit, so they can act like they are living the good life, when in reality, they are buying shit they can't afford. If there was no bullshit credit scam system, people would find out just how much REAL spending power they have. Suddenly you can't own the new car with no credit.

[imaginepeace63]

This woman's beauty is skin deep

[882me]

torgman,

Fox's "beautiful-yet-evil women" are the spawn of the Stepford wives, wouldn't ya think?

[classc63]

Pretty typicall GOP/Glenn Beckkk/FAUX "news" tatic...saying it means it MUST be TRUE!

[yohaneuano4]

According to the CEOs, they are the slaves (to that non-existant "tyranny of the majority"). And because they own the media, their opinion is proliferated moreso. The irony about these lower-class Republicans is that they're told by the very people that are screwing them that they're actually being screwed by those trying to help them.

[torgman]

Another good example of a lofty ideal: unregulated capitalism.

[torgman]

PoliticalSkeptic : On Fox News, you don't need to refute anything. You need to shout them down and repeat the lie. Of anything that resembles relevance, the dweeb in the middle piped in with data from the party/corporate line. I don't see why Fox viewers can't see this.

Papantonio held up pretty well for two against one.

Where does Fox get these beautiful-yet-evil women?

[Orion1232]

@CheSpotting "Workers of the world unite!"

Fuck you. Corporate slavery forever! CEOs, UNITE!