Nearly two months ago, I wrote here that this day would come, that there would not be a public option. And now that day is here.

The use of the "public option" was only a negotiating tactic by Obama to push the Insurance Corporation's already arranged "compromise" through. That "compromise" known as a co-op --- which will be run by a board of insurance executives and a few "public" officials who are in the pocket of the insurance executives --- was always the plan.

The great PR scam will be this: "This is the American Way: Liberals had to give up some things and the insurance companies had to give up some things. Let's all applaud ourselves at our great reform."

One didn't need to be a soothsayer to know this was coming. Anyway, if anyone cares, here's my thread from two months ago which sank like a stone here.

Spit out the Kool-Aid, there never was going to be a government option. The people that own this country will remain in control of this country.

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NATIONAL HEALTH CARE CO-OPTED BY A CO-OP: THAT'S THE RUG YOU FEEL BEING PULLED OUT FROM UNDER YOUR FEET.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discu...

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.