because there's not time, we
know what has when asia gets in
and south america gets in,
really too large to even discuss
too far here today.
but as you've heard most of our
colleagues discuss today, many
of us believe clearly that the
regulation of insurance is a
state's right, purely and simply
a state's right.
reserved under the states and
the biggest violation of
consumers that i've seen quite
frankly has been by companies
that write health insurance, for
example, under arisa, every
state except the state they
reside collect premiums and
don't pay claims because the
federal government does nothing
about it.
it wasn't until states got
together several years ago and
crossed state loans for the
first time in history to
prosecute health insurance
fraud.
if we left it to the federal
government they would be
plunderring people in 49 states,