Campaign Silo » Senator Conrad Says He’ll Vote Against The Public Option In Senate: "In a town hall meeting with his constituents, Senator Conrad pushed his co-operative plan, and said that he would vote against the public option in any Senate health care package.
CARRINGTON, N.D. — Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D. presented his cooperative health care proposal here Thursday and told an audience of 100 that he would not vote for a government-run health care program.
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The proposal has received bipartisan support for several reasons, he said. The cooperative would offer a non-profit insurance option to compete with private health care. It would not be government run, he said.
Individuals, families and small business owners could stick with their current provider, or they could opt for the cooperative plan.
This is too rich for my blood. We have a Democratic Senator, who's been pushing the co-operative line ever since the debate over health care reform heated up earlier this spring, and he's a part of the Senate Finance Committee that is keeping the rest of the Senate Democrats out of their caucus talks. And he knows full well that his co-op plan wouldn't help the majority of his constituents. In what's been leaked about the Senate Finance bill, the co-operative plan actual"
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