Why are health insurance companies exempt from antitrust laws? Not for long...

Why should the health insurance industry get some sweetheart deal that other industries don't get? The other industry with an antitrust exemption? Baseball. That's it. Below is Americans United's ad, and Politico has more info, and Harry Reid even testified in favor of removing the exemption. Regardless of what happens on health care, I can't imagine how the Democrats can leave this in place now. People will be livid. (And this should have been in Baucus' bill from the beginning - you'd better believe Max Baucus and his staff knew about this, and did nothing about it.)