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

To: RetiredNow who wrote (15956)	4/1/2010 8:16:28 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

They can do that, but that's what Verizon is having to contend with as they roll our FiOS. No it isn't. Verizon is facing what we have now for health insurance, with its attempt to roll out FiOS, or at least something vaguely similar. Its facing 50 states (or perhaps 50 states plus thousands of localities) imposing their own rules. The regulatory competition idea is not that TX imposes one rule and if you want to do business there you have to follow TX rules, while NY imposes another and if you sell in NY you have to follow NY rules, but rather TX and NY, and the other 48 states, establish rules, you pick which one you like, get chartered/approved/whatever according to that one set of rules, and sell in all 50 states using that one set of rules.