August 18, 2009
Over the weekend, President Barack Obama stepped back
from his insistence that Congress establish a government health
insurance scheme to compete with private insurers as part of health
care reform. Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) has proposed setting up
nonprofit health insurance cooperatives as an alternative.
Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey parses the
co-op idea and finds that you'd need an electron microscope to
discern any real differences between it and the Democrats'
government health insurance plan.
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