Here is more detail from CBS on the interview this morning.
Glad to see him stand up for the public option. Seems like our congressional Democrats are running away from it very fast now.
Dean: Health Co-Ops Just Political Theater(CBS) Former Vermont Governor and doctor, Howard Dean said the health care co-operative proposal is purely for political strategy and has not worked in the past on "Face the Nation" Sunday.
"That proposal is a political compromise, not a policy compromise," Dean said. "No one knows what it would look like and when it has been tried in the past it mostly hasn’t worked."
Dean, a strong advocate for the public insurance option, said people need the choice of a government-run plan to compete with private insurers. He argued that because private insurance companies are investor-owned, they are spending less money on health services and more on equity.
Medicare, Dean said, "is by nature much more efficient" because currently seniors can move, leave their job and get sick without having their coverage discontinued.
"Everybody over 65 has it and the question is 'Why don't we open up that program,'" he said.
He also says if we can spend so much money in Iraq and Afghanistan, we can spend money getting health care for our country.
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