I skimmed that and found it an interesting take - something I had already been wondering about. Obama has been a little too smooth in the transition to the co-op idea - and there are some who seemed primed and ready to move in that direction - almost as if it was as the article suggests.

The co-op is the back door method and also needs to be stopped cold. The idea of the government providing the seed money and then backing out (as they have tried to suggest) is unlikely to happen. I have never known government to back out of anything they put money into.

I also don't like Obama's characterization of the "government providing the funds". The last time I checked, those were taxpayer funds.

The administration complains about the insurance companies, but who is in charge of oversight? Why don't the overseers do something other than throw money at what they perceive as problems?

Obama keeps saying that Republicans are inventing boogeymen, but it seems to me that he's in a bind and manufacutring his own Republican AND insurance company boogeymen. I guess he really needs to be seen whipping something.

Frank