Yes on Prop. 45

In the battle between the people and for-profit health sector over Proposition 45 that allows the Insurance Commissioner to review health insurance rate hikes, I am rooting for the people.

For those interested in details, a good pro-Prop 45 op-ed was published in the L.A. Times by Jamie Court and another in The Independent.

Government is us, and government is meant to protect us, the Davids, from the Goliaths. Left to the forces of capitalism without some moderating governmental oversight, we would still have child labor, slavery, 80-hour work weeks, no OSHA, unregulated utilities, no inspection of food and water quality, no limits on pollution, and so on.