Obama Threatens Insurers' Anti-Trust Exemption
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/us/politics/18address.html?_r=3&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1255789206-IdVzTre1f0oBjy45BLLJ0w
" In unusually harsh terms, Mr. Obama cast insurance companies as obstacles to change interested only in preserving their own "profits and bonuses" and willing to "bend the truth or break it" to stop his drive to remake the nation's health care system."
It's about damned time. They've had this sanctioned monopoly since 1945. This would be a huge step towards reform. Someone in the oval office must be doing some smart polling and hate that they own the legislature.