I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years – where they serve the purposes of the consuming public whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.
We don't want the efficiency of the federal government and the compassion of the IRS to run our health care.
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But at the end of the day we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies – they don't have a pension – they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.