mr. burgess: a multistate corporation has the ability to deliver their product over state lines. individuals in the individual market are prohibited from buying across the state line to get a better deal. mr. akin: that suggests -- mr. mr. burgess: insurance companies tend to form natural monopolies. if you remove the barriers, rather than adding another company for competition, why not remove barriers and open it up to 1,200 or 13rks00 companies that might like to compete for business in alabama. mr. akin: you've got in the case of missouri, where i'm from, you've got kansas city. kansas city, half of it is in missouri and half in kansas. so if somebody in missouri kind of goes over the line into kansas and finds out, hey, i could get a couple hundred bucks less a month on the same health policy, why can't i buy that health policy from an insurance company in kansas? what you're saying is, yeah, that's ok. allow people to shop for insurance across lines which then reduces the monopoly problem in the insurance industry. that's something that don't you think most republicans would