Sen. Conrad Proposes a Co-operative Healthcare Option.

http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906102037dowjonesdjonline000797&title=co-operative-plan-takes-center-stage-in-us-health-care-talks Imagine my pleasant surprise to notice that I am not the only Democrat to come up with such an idea regarding health coverage. I feel that this alternate plan will be more positive, as well as cost effective, compared to the public option that is stirring up so much heated controversy. The Conrad proposal should also garner bipartisan support. It seems like the only possible Republican misgivings are in relation to funding it. Personally, the only reason why I even mentioned government subsidising healthcare, in a previous blog entry http://libertariansocialist.blogspot.com/2009/08/sarah-palin-raises-scare-about.html, is that I wish to allay left-liberal scepticism as to how adequate an entirely privately funded program would be. For example, farms in this country are routinely supported by federal subsidies. Yet, if it can be shown that the co-operatives are able to stand alone from the public sector, then all the better. I just consider this developement to be a progressive step towards realising my dream of eventually attaining libertarian socialism.