Steven Greenhut on Obamacare’s Fight Against More Regulation

Supporters of Obamacare are
used to fending off challenges from the right, but in California,
the biggest threat to the program’s implementation now is coming
from the left, says Steven Greenhut. An initiative that has
qualified for the November 2014 ballot, called the “Insurance
Rate Public Justification and Accountability Act,” would
impose the kind of price controls on health insurance that exist on
California auto, property and casualty insurance. And Obamacare’s
champions fear that these rules would strangle the state’s health
care exchange, called Covered California, with profiteering,
delays, and too much regulation. Talk about ironies!

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