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While interstate commerce in goods and services is routine invirtually every other area of the national economy, such as bankingand financial services, it is largely frustrated in the health caresector by law and government regulation. For individuals andfamilies, this means that they are not able to secure the kind ofcoverage they want at the prices they wish to pay. The Health CareChoice Act (H.R. 2355 and S.1015), sponsored by Representative JohnShadegg (R-AZ) and Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), would amend currentlaw to allow for interstate commerce in health insurance planswhile preserving states' primary responsibility for the regulationof health insurance.
The problems of America's health care system can best be addressedthrough market-based solutions. The evidence indicates that undernational health insurance, the promise of coverage becomes healthrationing, access to universal coverage means delays in access tocare, official fairness yields to favoritism by officials, freedomof choice becomes coerced conformity, and democratic deliberationis replaced by bureaucratic decision-making.