"Conrad ticked off the areas of agreement that were reached Monday. 'National structure: I believe to be effective there has to a national entity with state affiliates and those affiliates have to have the ability to regionalize. I think his concern there can be addressed,' said Conrad.
"'Second, he believes there needs to be national purchasing power. I think that's a good point that the national entity would be able to do purchasing on behalf of the state and regional affiliates and on behalf of the national entity itself.'"
Remember when cooperatives were another word for commie?
Sen. Conrad can call it a co-op if he wants, but if it's a fully funded public program regulated by the federal government, I don't care if he's mincing words over state and regional affiliates.
One of the right-wing's favorite whipping boys for socialized medicine has state affiliates.
http://www.nhs.uk/
http://www.wales.nhs.uk/
http://www.scot.nhs.uk/
http://www.n-i.nhs.uk/
If we're starting to talk semantics... calling the national public healthcare option something Conrad can swallow while saving face... he's making progress.
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The Millennium has passed...
...but the Armageddon-mongers haven't.
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