That getting people to want to "buy insurance across state lines" is just one example, to me, of the Republicans tremendous ability to sell anything, because that one is truly "lipstick on a pig".

If we become able to "buy insurance across state lines", all the states who have instituted good consumer protection laws will be powerless to prevent the system from spiraling down to the lower common denominator, as insurance companies will cluster to headquarter in whatever states offer them the fewest consumer protections, the most lenient of regulation, etc.

People really don't even understand the first thing about this....it SOUNDS good to them, "increasing competition", "giving you more choices", etc.

Being sold down the river is a far more accurate description. The lobbyists for the health insurance companies practically salivate as they contemplate managing to get this through. JMHO

And "frivolous lawsuits" are a tiny, tiny almost invisible fraction of health care costs, and most states already have fairly stringent regulation of frivolous lawsuits already. What this REALLY is is an attempt to make sure that providers have a very low amount that is the maximum someone can get, regardless of how egregious the malpractice might be.

It's one more way they prey on peoples' fear of "somebody else getting something for nothing", but they don't realize that what they'd be "for" would be handing the companies and providers a whole LOT of something for nothing, giving them caps on damages, and eliminating any incentive to increase accuracy and care.