February 18, 2010 5:45PM 

# Correcting Klein on Competitive Insurance Regulation 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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*Washington Post* blogger Ezra Klein [critiques](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/02/selling_insurance_across_state.html) the idea of allowing individuals and employers to purchase health insurance regulated by states other than their own.

I preemptively correct his post in [this Cato paper](https://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa650.pdf), published four months prior.

For more, see [this *Regulation* article](https://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv31n4/v31n4-6.pdf) by Henry Butler and Larry Ribstein.

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