Health insurers enter and exit markets all the time—they aren't prevented from offering plans in other states.
american healthcare
August 31, 2009
2:00AM
In the debate over health care reform in Canada, defenders of the status quo often resort to the tired old claim that a greater role for competition, private financing, or private provision of health care services in Canada would mean the Americanization of health care.
Indeed, the claim is often made that proponents of private financing and delivery of health care in Canada are recommending the U.S. approach to health care policy.
Its well time we put this misleading and false argument to rest.