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Enrique

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6. also the insurers are exempt from antitrust laws

Reply to subterranean (Reply #2)

Mon Jan 9, 2012, 11:03 AM

Jan 2012

but he's speaking at the Chamber of Commerce, where they all live in free market la la land.

By the way, what's Romney's position on repealing the health insurance industry's antitrust exemption.

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