Pelosicare Regulates Snack Machines

The House health-care reform plan unveiled last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) would do more than regulate insurance companies - it would even regulate vending machines.

The bill, which is posted online, would require that vending machine operators either create new machines that allow the customer to view nutrition facts or post nutritional information for each product near "each article of food or the selection button."

The regulation could wind up costing vendors millions of dollars to make the changes, according to industry estimates.