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To: Lane3 who wrote (131543)	2/26/2010 11:00:47 AM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 541299

I understand this point. But it is the perspective of someone who things regulation is inherently good and more regulation even better. Hmmph. I don't recall offering that as my perspective. Said with a bit of indignation. My point was quite specific. There are two reasons to assume that simply permitting the sale of health insurance across state lines without regulation at the federal level would produce worse outcomes than the presently bad ones we live with. I enumerated those and suggested the Obama had argued that the legislation addresses both of those problems. I fail to see how that qualifies for your early morning ire. There is quite clearly regulation which is nonsensical. I don't necessarily understand your illustrations but I have more than a few of my own. But favoring regulation to overcome the specifically anticipated social ills produced by permitting the sale of insurance across state lines without federal regulation is not one. We haven't seen the regulations. Those will be developed over time. We see only the concept. And the concept, that specific concept, works for me. Argue with that. Not the abstract issue of good and bad regulation.

To: Lane3 who wrote (131543)	3/1/2010 12:55:31 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541299

I understand this point. But it is the perspective of someone who things regulation is inherently good and more regulation even better. It's the perspective of someone who can't see that there is helpful regulation and detrimental regulation. Part of why insurance costs so much is excessive regulation like regulation that allows only first-dollar policies or requires all the cats and dogs to be covered. While it is possible that a race to the bottom might occur, a race to the top is also possible, or maybe a race to the middle. The bottom isn't a given. One persons' "race to the bottom", is another's "beneficial regulatory competition". Sometimes even after the fact, when you have actual results to look at an evaluate.