{"id":9857,"date":"2010-02-23T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/white-house-urges-repeal-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption\/"},"modified":"2010-02-23T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T23:36:00","slug":"white-house-urges-repeal-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/white-house-urges-repeal-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption.php","title":{"rendered":"White House Urges Repeal of Insurers&#8217; Antitrust Exemption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have three reactions to this <a href=\"http:\/\/prescriptions.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/23\/white-house-urges-repeal-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption\/?hp\">news<\/a>:<\/p><p>1. On balance, antitrust policy does more harm than good and should therefore be repealed.&nbsp; Then the insurance exemption would be moot.<\/p><p>2. If we have an antitrust policy, I see no good argument for exempting the insurance industry.<\/p><p>3. I cannot figure out what health insurers are currently doing that violates the antitrust laws.&nbsp;So repeal of the exemption would make no difference.<\/p><p>Am I misssing something here?<\/p><div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/8bb6e_6379328854053402400-5082789831799213057?l=jeffreymiron.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have three reactions to this news:1. On balance, antitrust policy does more harm than good and should therefore be repealed.&nbsp; Then the insurance exemption would be moot.2. If we have an antitrust policy, I see no good argument for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/libertarianism\/white-house-urges-repeal-of-insurers-antitrust-exemption.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarianism"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}