“The Wall Street Journal, and at least one major republican presidential contender want to create a national private health insurance market place as part of any reform. In an editorial last year on market-based health care reform proposals offered up by AHIP, the WSJ argued in favored of creating a private national insurance option. They complained that “the current system is a special interest anachronism in this age of Internet and global commerce,” and that we should “let the markets work” presumably at a national level rather than through 50 sets of state regulations.”
See my entire post over at the World Health Care Blog