Senate prospects for healthcare co-ops dim

[SpartanDem]

The prospects for setting up membership-run healthcare co-ops, an idea favored by Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), are growing dimmer in the Senate.

Baucus has included healthcare co-ops in lieu of a government-run health insurance program in the legislation the Senate Finance Committee will vote on Tuesday.

In recent days, speculation has swirled around the question of whether Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) would include co-ops or a public option in the legislation he creates from bills passed by the Finance and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committees.

While Baucus’s bill gained new momentum because of a favorable cost analysis from the Congressional Budget Office, the same CBO report may have delivered a fatal blow to a major element in his plan, health insurance co-ops.

http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/62587-prospects-for-healthcare-co-ops-are-dimming

I'm glad this worthless idea finally appears to be dieing

[ProSense]

1. It's dead.

I think Conrad has the weak support of possibly two other Democrats.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. It was a rotten idea to begin with IMHO

I won't shed any tears for its demise. Well, maybe tears of joy but that's it!!! ;-)