Senator Blanche Lincoln joins the ranks of the cowardly and bought-off:
U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., says she prefers private insurance cooperatives to a government-run provider that would compete with the private sector in reforming the nation’s health care system.
“We want to keep what works in the private industry and make it better,” Lincoln told Arkansas reporters in a conference call today. “There’s a lot of discussion about what else we might need that we can’t get from the private sector.”
This co-op thing is about as good as nothing at all. The health insurers will destroy the co-ops in short order and we'll be left with what we have now.