Greenbeard
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The difference is Massachusettes is a state and the residents of that state have a right to decide what kind of insurance they want to have.
Again, that's not a distinction the piece is drawing in those quotes.
Regardless, the principle that residents of a state have control over insurance regulation in the state doesn't seem to jibe with the conservative push (rhetorical push, at least) to use federal power to strip states of the authority to regulate insurance products sold in their states.