As important as each of the individual components of healthcare reform are, and as much as there is to be disappointed in with the likely bill, to revoke the Insurance companies Anti-Trust Exemption, would ALONE be an historic accomplishment, perhaps even one of the most important feats in a generation... and it is on the fence ... RIGHT NOW!
It is one of the items that might, MIGHT make it to the final bill via the abbreviated conference process.
As Keith Olbermann put it tonight "... it allows insurers to legally fix prices.. something that hasn't been allowed in most industries since before 1910." They have been allowed to be legal monopolies for decades, and it needs to end.
This is a pivotal moment in American history... The Senate version as it stands does not revoke their exemption.
Please call or write your senator and congressperson, as well as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, and tell them to insist on revoking the Anti-Trust exemption for insurance companies!