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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (522962)10/23/2009 12:13:07 PM
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Public Strongly Supports Dem Effort To Open Insurance Industry To Competition

This is the first polling I’ve seen on the issue, and it shows very strong public support for the new push by Dem Congressional leaders to strip the insurance companies of their exemption from anti-trust laws:

Anti-trust laws are intended to prevent companies and other business entities from working together in ways that limit competition. For more than 100 years, health insurance companies have been exempt from anti-trust laws. Should the law be changed so that health insurance companies are subject to anti-trust regulations?

65% Yes

12% No

23% Not sure

Polling has mostly been mixed on whether the strategy of attacking the insurance industry has paid off, partly because the industry had succeeded in muddying the waters by making nice noises about how it really, really — really! — doesn’t oppose reform.

But in recent days, the industry’s tactical screw-ups — releasing that widely-criticized report claiming that reform would hike premiums, for instance — seem to have suddenly crystallized memories of its historical opposition to reform and focused public anger a bit more. The above polling suggests the public is hungry for action against it, too. Public option, anyone?

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