The story goes like this: The Republicans want health insurance to be sold across state lines. Y'see, there are states where health insurance is cheap, like Hawaii, and ones where it's expensive, like Pennsylvania. If people in Pennsylvania could only buy their health insurance from companies in Hawaii, everyone would be happy!
The reality is a little different: Insurance companies don't charge people in Pennsylvania more than they charge people in Hawaii because they hate Pennsylvanians. It's because Pennsylvanians dig coal, make steel and have THREE kinds of Spam, not just one! It's more expensive to treat people in PA than in HI, so PA residents get charged more. But don't worry, if health insurance companies were allowed to sell across state lines the companies would all move to PA anyway.
I know: "What about auto insurance companies? They sell across state lines!" They do...but if you were to fly from Seattle to North Carolina and buy a new car at Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet (people do this), the F&I manager's first act would be to pull her rate book out of the desk drawer and flip straight to the Seattle page. I lived at three different addresses in Fayetteville and paid three different insurance rates. Same town, but different rates. Figure that shit out.
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