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Liberal Republican Olympia Snow proposes new plan along with two moderate Dem's.
Brown described it as a take-off of the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan.
With the Office of Personnel Management as the administrator,
the program would be separate from the Department of Health and Human Services, which regulates the insurance marketplace.
"It would be a national, not-for-profit," Brown said. "(The Office of Personnel Management) would administer it. It would be any number of national not-for-profits that would compete nationally and they would take the place – more conservative members hope – of the public option. They would be in states and be running a kind of lookalike to a public option."
The nonprofit insurance companies would "go to OPM and say I want to compete and then you show them you’ve got standing to compete," Brown said.
Existing insurance companies could participate as long as their plan is not-for-profit, he said....
Brown, however, said he is not a convert to the latest proposal. Supporters of the public option have already compromised enough, he said.
"Well, I don't think much of it, frankly, compared to a public option," Brown said. "I'm willing to talk to anybody about anything but they haven't sold it yet."