More from the evolving story of the Coalition Against Competition. This from TPM Reader RP ...

Not getting enough notice is the fact that in manylocal health care markets there are very few insurance companies offering care plans. In many places there are one or two companies that provide most of the insurance. Particularly true if you set aside the uninsured people and the people the plans reject who can only get coverage from the high cost state coverage pool. If you look at US Representatives and Senators who oppose the Public Option, in many cases they are receiving political funds from insurance companies with near monopolies in their coverage locations. TPM Muckraker could/should compile a table of representatives, the health care insurance companies donating to them and the percentage of their markets they control. That would tell a big story about what is really happening.