Amazing performance by All Things Considered host Robert Segal questioning Kent Conrad on health care reform and the public option. Conrad went on and on about the private exchanges with non profit coops leading the way. Robert Segal pointed out that Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota was a non-profit co-op (Segal however didn't mention that in March the former CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shiled of North Dakota was terminated with a $2.2 million golden parachute). Kent Conrad said well he did not mean that kind of coop; he meant competition from a new coop. And then Conrad went on about Land o' Lakes and True Value Hardware being coops - but Segal grilled him on the limited experience of coops in health care. It was a beautiful thing to hear a reporter ask real questions in an interview. And to finish it off Segal asked what was the point of bipartisanship if all but one or two Republicans in the Senate would vote against any bill. A link to the interview