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DOJ Obamunists Break New Ground

In a landmark Idaho case, the Justice Department forced a group of doctors to accept government price controls.

In a nutshell, Boise orthopedists agreed that worker's comp reimbursement for their services was insufficient.  They voted to withhold service until, the Idaho Industrial Commission set new fee schedules. The Attorney General of the United States had other ideas, however.  This was after-all an early affront to ObamaKare.  He flew in, and coerced them to think it over, or be tried for felony price fixing.     The Idaho attorney general, then, had the effrontery to accuse the doctors of disrupting the free market, by removing competition. “ The free marketplace works best when there is fair competition. Anticompetitive activity harms the marketplace, businesses and consumers. Enforcement of the antitrust laws restores competition to the marketplace to the benefit of businesses and consumers and the marketplace as a whole. ” "Restores competition?"  With who, Midas Muffler?  Krispy Kreme?   ObamaKare?   I feel like I'm living in  a history book.