What's this about a healthcare co-op...?

[Subdivisions]

Kelly O'Donnell on MSNBC just said that the public option is "waning" and that a "co-op", which is not a government program, is beginning to take shape.

WTF? Anyone else hear this?

[tridim]

1. GE has spoken. nt

[The empressof all]

2. It's a shell game.

The reality is co-ops will be too small to have an impact on rising costs. I currently belong to a co-op. It costs the same as "Big Box" Insurance.

[OHdem10]

3. Another Cave In to the Insurance and Health Industry. A GOP WIN

[Skink]

4. It's only for states that don't issue iou's or forget to pay state workers.

[Walk away]

5. I think it means "Why did I bother voting in November?"

Iran has a public option! We get nothing but a shell game.

[SammyWinstonJack]

7. +1

I am feeling like that more and more lately. x(

[MarjorieG]

6. Baucus committee does not speak for the Congress. Wait until Conference.

Co-ops can't prove the savings and don't deserve federal infusion if can't cover additional people.

[gratuitous]

8. Well, if you liked your HMO . . .

Boy oh boy will you despise a "healthcare co-op."

[dhpgetsit]

9. It's Corporate America pulling the wool over your eyes and declaring it change.

Yet again.

[inna]

10. yeah, i heard on CNN this morning - much to my shock - that the public option is effectively dead,

now it's "co-ops" instead of the PO.

in other words, we are continued to be screwed.

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