Topic: Health Insurance

Existing regulations prevent insurance companies from selling policies across state lines, effectively limiting the supply of available plans for consumers. This restriction reduces market competition, allowing insurers to maintain higher premiums due to a lack of outside alternatives. Permitting the sale of insurance policies nationwide would apply basic economic principles of supply and demand to reduce costs for policyholders.

Carla Howell, who ran against Mitt Romney for governor in 2002, criticizes his record as being fundamentally "big government." She asserts that Romneycare, which Romney championed alongside Ted Kennedy, served as the blueprint for Obamacare by mandating that individuals and small businesses purchase health insurance.