Treason is, indeed, a capital offense in the US.

The United States Code at 18 U.S.C. § 2381 states "whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States."

They won't compete. the bastards will just carve up the country like the European empires devided up the New World.

It wouldn't do a thing to help the millions of uninsured, or induce them to stop dropping the sick and raising rates.

They'll collude to keep profits ever higher.

cross-state competition would gut state regulation of insurance. you'd then have to have federal insurance regulation. or are you one of those whistle-past-the-graveyard pseudo-libertarians, more attached to ideology than reality? just askin, stevor.

Your 'colorful' use of the President's name only belies your 8th grade education level. If you cannot present a coherent opinion without fumbling the spelling of the President's name, then why do you think anyone would want to give your thought or opinion the time of day? Go back to your sand box with the other children and let the adults speak.

Allowing people to buy health plans over state lines would increase that competition.

How's that working out in banking? Oh, right, now they're all based in one state (DE) because it has the most lax regulations. Letting people buy health insurance from any state would do exactly the same thing: completely and totally gut all state regulation.

Oh, and on another note..."Obummer?" Really? What a jerk.

Insurance has to be uniformly regulated by the government to be sold as a mass product. Without regulation the customer has no idea what he is buying because an insurance product is paying up front for a promise and then hoping for someone to live up to that promise much later when the selling organization can make a lot of money by reneging on the promise. Recissions are just one small example of that. There are good and very powerful reasons why every state in the nation regulates insurance.

Do you really think that South Dakota or Delaware regulators will protect purchasers outside their state? I don't.

Selling health insurance across state lines without a uniform national insurance regulator performing the functions performed by the insurance regulators in every state simply allows the big insurers to take over a single state, redesign the regulation to suit themselves and sell crap nationally.

The credit card industry did something like that three decades ago, and that is one reason why credit cards are incomprehensible rip-offs of their customers. Health insurance would be much worse than the worst abuses by the banks because health insurance is a much more complicated product than credit cards.

Tell me - does anyone proposing selling health insurance across state lines propose a uniform national regulator for health insurers? Could it ever get through Congress?

The obvious answers are NO and NO.

Selling insurance across state lines means selling crap and making insurers even more wealthy while degrading the current American health system even more than it is now.

"One thing that the leftists complain about is the lack of competition."

No, they do not. They emphasize cooperation of sociopathy. And the far-right lunatic fringe to which you beling bashes them for that -- cooperation being "whimpy" and "cowardly".

It's the far-right that always jabbers about "freedom" and "free market" and "competition" -- except when they control the monopoly, in which instance they accuse the "left," when it asks the far-right, "What about competeition?" of being "Socialist".

The bottom line -- and this will be too straight for you to grasp -- is that the far-right is so incoherent, so muddled, so befogged in its own ideological bullshit, that it can't see that it is incoherent, muddled, and up to its hairline in its own shit.

Problem is, diapers would only help with one of those problems. But David Vitter has that monopoly.

mmm. isn't that the way it is with credit cards? why do you think delaware and s dakota are so important in the world of credit cards?
hint: it's not to give better customer service.