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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (13684)	3/1/2010 5:49:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

# In 54 percent of metropolitan markets, at least one insurer had a market share of 50 percent or more -- up from 40 percent of metropolitan markets the year before. # In 92 percent of metropolitan markets, at least one insurer had a share of 30 percent or more -- up from 89 percent of metropolitan markets the year before. That level of concentration isn't all that rare. How many manufacturers of large jet liners are there? Also to the extent competition is low enough to be a problem, it became that way in the context of an increasingly regulated industry, and in the context of discussions about adding a lot more regulation. Perhaps piling on more regulation and government control isn't the answer.