Jane Hamsher on why the new health care compromise called "co-ops" is just another name for a fake public option:
I know many were delighted with President Obama's defense of a "public option" yesterday. But coming on the heels of Robert Gibbs' statement that the President doesn't prefer a public option over co-ops, I listened carefully and my impression is that this is just Phase III of the co-op squeeze play: try to say co-ops are just as good as a public option and convince people that having a true public option just isn't a big deal. Because that's what Kent Conrad designed them for -- as he told me, he came up with them when it was determined that there "weren't enough votes" for a public option (and the public most certainly wanted one).
It's why Jerry Nadler called co-ops the "fake" public option: make the 76% of Americans who want a public option feel like they got one without actually having to give them one. There's a reason insurance stocks are soaring.
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