For 65 years, the insurance industry has used the anti-trust exemption to collude against consumers, fixing prices and raising rates well above inflation.
Fallon would like to remove the anti-trust exemption that health insurance companies currently enjoy, so that true free-market principles can bring down the cost of care.
See, Major League Baseball has a convenient anti-trust exemption that allows its member organizations to control entire swaths of the country.
Being need-blind is a statutory requirement for institutions to participate in an anti-trust exemption granted by Congress which remains in effect until September 30, 2015.
But more important, it has mentioned the words that truly terrify baseball: creating legislation to revoke baseball's anti-trust exemption.
A limited anti-trust exemption was created for U.S. dairy cooperatives by the Capper-Volstead Act of 1922.
Baseball's anti-trust exemption was important in the development and expansion of the league.
The UAW's support was crucial in winning an anti-trust exemption from the Federal Trade Commission.
Here in New York, another group called Sports Fans United has been working for two years to get Congress to repeal baseball's anti-trust exemption.
Meanwhile, Congress is questioning baseball's cushy anti-trust exemption.