Kent Conrad Explains Why Co-Op Option Came About

Courtesy Donklephant  Fri, 06/12/2009 - 12:13am

Simply put, because heath care reform may not happen without it.

They simply don’t have the votes to reach 60.

Ezra Klein interviewed Conrad today , and this is the gist:

Maybe it would be most useful to tell you how I got into this.

The G-11 group, which is the members of the Senate, Republicans and Democrats, chairmen and ranking members of the key committees, who’ve been given the overall responsibility to coordinate...


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