The Insurance Corporations and Big Pharmacy have cooked up a doozey that is sucking Democrats right into their plan to kill the Public Health Option: A National Health Care Co-Op. And who would run the National Health Co-Op? Why the insurance companies and the pharmaceutical corporations with a few purchased politicians to give it an "official seal of approval" with the public.

So our hopes, our struggles for a national health-care public option --- a competitive government-run option for the public --- has been co-opted with a co-op card trick at the last moment.

The Co-0p is to Co-opt the true public plan.

Co-opt: to commandeer, to appropriate or take over.

That's the rug being pulled out from under your feet.