Health Insurance Co-op: Don't Be Fooled

Sen. Chucky Schumer (Dem.-NY), a powerful voice on health care reform in the Democrat left-wing, lists three conditions that need to be met for health insurance "co-operatives":
1. it has to be large (small co-ops spread around the country are not acceptable)
2. it has to be very influential ( national "model" is proposed)
3. it has to be set up with a LARGE INFUSION OF FEDERAL MONEY.
This is a back door, or some call it a "Trojan Horse", to ObamaCare, driving private insurers out of the market who cannot compete with this "large infusion of federal dollars" and who will be further hampered by new "mandates" to further increase their costs relative to the federally funded co-op. The result will be the same as the "public option" or "government option" in ObamaCare, but just under another name and by a slightly different path. The co-op(s) will evolve to a single-payer government-run health care system with all of the negatives discussed in previous postings. Meanwhile, the posting on August 13th which describes health care reform proposed by the CEO of Whole Foods, appears to be the most sensible proposal around, but the Democrats want no part of it because it doesn't give them power and control over jobs, money and votes.
As for the co-op idea, when you dress up a pig, underneath it's still a pig.