Stories like this solidify in my mind the idea that, if socialism is ever to succeed in the US, the roots will be planted in rural US, not in coastal cities; more Mao than Lenin. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the US midwest was a hot bed of socialist/communist/anarchist/union activity, until the passage of the Espionage (1917) and Sedition (1918) Acts allowed the federal government to crush it, with troops when necessary. They even tossed presidential candidate Eugene Debs in jail for opposing US entrance into WW1. Here you have a Republican governor, in a poorest of ruby red state, signing a law to protect people from insurance companies.