09/27/2010
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"Mr. Chairman, if we have this kind of implementation, then we are not going to fulfill the goal that we all set when we laboriously put together, in your committee, this health care bill."
"Well, I can tell you that the representative of the Majority Leader, Kate Leone, in the negotiations, has told this Senator that, first of all, HHS had put CO-OPs on the table as a source of revenue."
"the law says that there is going to be a health insurance exchange come 2014."
"Now my question would be, what are you going to do about it since CO-OPs, in fact, are estimated to bring down the cost 10 to 15 percent for the consumers, for the premium-payers?"