IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- No Health Care Middle Ground As Dems And GOP Scorn Co-Ops

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor's Business Daily -- No Health Care Middle Ground As Dems And GOP Scorn Co-Ops: "Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., has hoped to break the gridlock in Washington by replacing the public option with health care co-ops. But both sides are so dug in that his idea has made little progress.

Liberals have scorned co-ops as a retreat from creating a government insurer. Conservatives see it as a public option by another name.

'The only reason it is getting any play at all is because the public option is on the downside right now, we think,' said Merrill Matthews, director of the Council for Affordable Health Insurance, which represents insurers.

Conrad, Senate Budget Committee chairman, told Fox News Thursday that the co-ops would be 'membership-owned and membership-run' and a 'nonprofit alternative to for-profit insurance companies.'"

If a co-op is what people want, then just do it. There is no need for government involvement. If the government does get involved then it is just the slow road for them to get to a complete government health care take over as they are trying now.