The 8/25/2011 Washington Times reports, "Rebellion by states could be hazardous to health care overhaul".
(As the article notes, it's unclear that any state-level initiatives could override federal-level provisions of ObamaCare without consent of Congress and the President. But the state-level actions are an interesting reflection of popular political sentiment.)
In the 8/25/2011 Orange County Register, John Graham notes "Health insurers in states' cross hairs".
When state governments can accept (or reject) requested insurance rate increases, it turns the nominally-private health insurance companies into a variant of "public" utilities. Yet when it suits them, the states can shift the blame for increases on the insurers for political purposes.
The blog of Freedom and Individual Rights in Medicine (FIRM)
