White House Urges Repeal of Insurers’ Antitrust Exemption

I have three reactions to this news:

1. On balance, antitrust policy does more harm than good and should therefore be repealed.  Then the insurance exemption would be moot.

2. If we have an antitrust policy, I see no good argument for exempting the insurance industry.

3. I cannot figure out what health insurers are currently doing that violates the antitrust laws. So repeal of the exemption would make no difference.

Am I misssing something here?

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