No mandate without first revoking the health insurance industry's anti-trust exemption.

[Captain Hilts]

If Republicans are serious about wanting to preserve 'choice', insist they permit us to have one!

[SharonAnn]

1. Revoke the anti-trust examption no matter what.

[Captain Hilts]

2. In an ideal world, yes. Make it a specific vote and force Republicans to come clean on screwing us.

[Andy823]

3. I agree.

If they have to vote on the things that everyone is upset about, republicans and teabaggers included, they can't very well vote no without ticking off their own voters, and that's good!

[Captain Hilts]

4. They talk a good game about preserving 'choice', but how many of us actually have it? nt

[Edweird]

5. +1

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

6. A serious non-rhetorical question:

I'm trying to wrap my mind around this at the moment. If the insurance "exchanges" are created, how relevant is the anti-trust exemption? To my mind, the exchanges eliminate at least some of the advantages given by the anti-trust exemption.