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...California insurance quake may soon draw the attention of Washington lawmakers. While virtually no politician wants the Federal Government to regulate insurance, a broad coalition of consumer and other groups has urged Congress to end an antitrust exemption that insurers have enjoyed since 1945. The groups say the repeal would promote competition and drive down rates. So far, the industry has easily turned back the challenge. "Auto-insurance prices are driven by underlying costs," argues David Farmer, vice president for federal affairs of the Alliance of American Insurers. Removing the exemption, he says, will do nothing to cut hospital bills...
Opponents of Question 2 on the statewide ballot question the accuracy of a Boston Globe poll published Sunday that said 49 percent of Massachusetts residents want to repeal the prevailing wage...
...vote to keep the prevailing wage law, youvote no on the referendum, and to repeal it, youvote yes, Lemieux said. "It's complex over thetelephone. It has to be simplified." According toLemieux, since the prevailing wage, which involvesboth union and non-union workers, is tied to theunion wage, "it is not unreasonable to assume"that the one affects the other...
Question Two on the ballot is a binding statewide referendum that proposes to repeal Massachusetts' Prevailing Wage Law. The Prevailing Wage Law requires state and local governments to pay the going rates--usually based on union levels--for any construction and public works projects...
...state to repeal this law would set back the cause of labor back by 70 years and would profit not taxpayers so much as wealthy contractors. A "No" vote on Question 2 prevents this from happening...