repubs/insurance industry afraid of the market

This is telling, from the NYT:

In a letter to Mr. Obama, [five Republican Senators] said that “forcing free market plans to compete with these government-run programs would create an unlevel playing field and inevitably doom true competition.”

“Ultimately,” the letter said, “we would be left with a single government-run program controlling all of the market.”

In short, private insurance plans are unable to compete against government-run programs, and the market would suffer because people would no longer have access to the inferior programs.

Makes so much sense.