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Andrea Joy Campbell: “Right. And we cannot have an antitrust exemption on one side and individuals unable even to call each other on the…”

On the recordMay 24, 2000
Right. And we cannot have an antitrust exemption on one side and individuals unable even to call each other on the other. And market power with fewer and fewer HMOs on one side, and a doctor who cannot even express her or his revulsion against a gag order to her or his colleague, is not the market. I suppose if one were a real free market Ricardo economist, they might say, let us go back to the state of nature. Let us get rid of the antitrust exemption for insurance. Incidently, I actually offered that once, and it got one vote in the Committee on the Judiciary in 1989.
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Andrea Joy Campbell
Massachusetts

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Discussing antitrust exemptions and market power in healthcare.

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