McCaskill asks: Is GOP out to end states' rights when it comes to regulating insurance?

[usregimechange]

Posted 12:30 a.m. Mon., Nov. 16: U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., isn't sure if Congress will get a health care bill passed by the end of the year.

What she is sure of, she said in an interview with the Beacon over the weekend, is that Republican opponents "have taken obstruction as a new art form."

McCaskill -- who generally supports the Democratic quest to revamp the nation's health care system -- says she is particularly mystified by the repeated GOP call to allow insurance to be purchased across state lines, which Republicans and their allies contend would reduce insurance costs.

If across-state-lines insurance purchases are allowed, she said, that likely would mean an end to state regulations on insurers.

http://www.stlbeacon.org/beacon_backroom/mccaskill_contends_republicans_oppose_states_rights_when_it_comes_to_insurance_companies


Many Republicans support state's rights when and only when it matches their ideology.

[dflprincess]

1. It could also be asked if the Democrats in the House moved to end states' rights

when they removed the amendment that would have allowed states to develop their own and potentially real solutions to the health care mess.