MLB and Health Insurance industry only anti-trust exemptions remaining

Mark Simone mentioned this on radio today while sitting in for Mark Levin. Recent item in the news that congress might push for anti-trust exemption to be lifted on the health insurance industry which considering the timing is probably a pr move. They've had many years to make changes and did nothing. But if the exemption were removed for insurance, MLB, Inc. would be the only legal monopoly. Although Leahy says he and Senator Hatch fixed baseball pretty good by passing the Curt Flood Act in 1998 (end of page):

• "Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy, The Medical Malpractice Insurance Antitrust Act of 2005, July 28, 2005:"

2/11/2003 from Sen. Leahy's site: "Only professional baseball has enjoyed an antitrust exemption comparable to that created for the insurance industry

• by the McCarran-Ferguson Act. Senator Hatch and I have joined forces several times in recent years to

• scale back that exemption for baseball, and in the Curt Flood Act of 1998

we successfully eliminated the exemption as it applied to employment relations. I hope we can work together again to create more competition in the insurance industry,

• just as we did with baseball." (Next to last paragraph on page).

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