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In an emailed statement to Bloomberg News, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said she’s open to the idea of dropping a public health insurance option in favor of a medical-insurance cooperative. “You could theoretically design a co-op plan that had the same attributes as a public plan,” Sebelius said.
Yeah and I could theoretically run a four minute mile in a ball gown and four inch heels, but that’s probably not going to happen either.
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Co-op my ass. Sebelius can drop the public option when she explains exactly how that’s different in a substantive way from what we have now.
The answer, boys and girls, is that it’s not substantively different from what we have now. All it does is to modify existing law to allow group-insurance from coalitions that are forbidden to form groups right now.
That is tinkering on the edges of our existing system. We need fundamental reform.
When aprox 75% of Americans opposed the TARP bailout, Congress (gop & dem), President Bush, candidates Obama & McCain made sure it went through. So why does anyone think that with overwhelming public support for public option health care reform that the govt. will listen? When the fix is in the fix is in.
Wow, what an incredible disappointment Sebelius has been. She should go back to Kansas and run for Senate.
But the public option makes Olympia Snowe cry!