Public option likely to be managed by private insurance company?

How many of you saw this today?

Maybe KBR Halliburton will get the contract to run the so-called "public option?"

Public option likely to be managed by private insurance company

By John Byrne
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 -- 7:31 am
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healthcare Public option likely to be managed by private insurance companyA little-noticed tidbit in Saturday's Washington Post is sure to raise eyebrows among liberal supporters of a gorvernment-run healthcare plan: the plan is likely to be administered by a private insurance company, the very companies that progressive activists are trying to unseat.

The public-option debate is frustrating some Democrats, who have come to believe that a government-run plan is neither as radical as its conservative critics have portrayed, nor as important as its liberal supporters contend. Any public plan is likely to have a relatively narrow scope, as it would be offered only to people who don't have access to coverage through an employer.

[link to rawstory.com]