Irish Examiner view: Exploiting a captive motor insurance market

Insurance companies maintain a powerful lobby.

One of the few things all of our governments have had in common is a visceral aversion to price controls. 

One after another, they avoid using their power — our power — to impose restraints on businesses to protect captive consumers. This faith in that nebulous adventure we call the market tips the scales in favour of businesses and disadvantages consumers corralled by one regulation or another.