Snowe Job? Insider Says Senator Is "Disingenuous or Naive"

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/10150913

Thursday 15 October 2009

by: Greg Palast, t r u t h o u t | Repor

Wendell Potter tells Greg Palast health insurers' dirty secret. (Photo: Fighting Bob Fest)

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Former insurance executive Wendell Potter tells Greg Palast, in an exclusive interview for Truthout.org, that "the system's rigged" to kill off so-called "health cooperatives." Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine cast the only Republican vote on the Senate Finance Committee for the Obama health care plan, but only on the condition that Democrats drop their demand for a "public option" insurer in favor of private doctor/hospital cooperatives.

[crim son]

1. I vote for disingenuous.

She may not be brilliant but she's not stupid, either.

[Raineyb]

2. I second that.

I don't even know why it's a big deal having her vote the damn thing out of committee. They don't need her for that and she has basically said that unless they do what she wants she won't vote for the final bill so I'm going to vote disingenuous as well.