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Bradley in DC
08-14-2009, 05:18 PM
Conrad Says He'll Vote Against Public Option

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/08/14/conrad_says_hell_vote_against_public_option.html

Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), one of six on the Senate Finannce Committee negotiating a bipartisan health care bill, "told an audience of 100 that he would not vote for a government-run health care program," the Jamestown Sun reports.

Instead, Conrad presented his "cooperative health care proposal" which "would offer a non-profit insurance option to compete with private health care. It would not be government run, he said."

TPM correctly notes that there is "still a question of whether he'd support a filibuster of a health care bill with a public option."

Dunedain
08-17-2009, 03:03 PM
Instead, Conrad presented his "cooperative health care proposal" which "would offer a non-profit insurance option to compete with private health care. It would not be government run, he said.


Such B.S. of course it will be government run. Private industry is not going to run it. Where are all the experts going to come from to run it? They'll all be sucked out of the private sector and into this peusdo government industry. Where is all the money going to come from to start the co-ops? From the government - which is you and me.