Right.
Please read what educated professionals who have studied these bills have to say:
The bills do not describe the criteria that corporations have to meet to get contracts from the Secretary; instead they refer the reader to criteria laid out in Section 1874A of the Social Security Act. That section spells out criteria corporations have to meet to win contracts to administer the current Medicare program. Under Section 1874A, corporations that win contracts to administer the Medicare program are called “Medicare Administrative Contractors” (MACs). (The task MACs carry out for Medicare is limited in its scope: It is to process claims filed by providers who treat Medicare patients.) Even though the authors of the HELP bill and HR 3200 want the Secretary to use MAC-like criteria in deciding which corporations to contract with to create the “option” program, they chose not to use the “MAC” label for the corporations that will create the “option.” The HELP bill calls them “contracting administrators.” HR 3200 gives these entities no name at all. For lack of a more convenient term, I will refer to the MAC-like corporations in the HR 3200 as “contracting administrators.”
As the preceding rather convoluted description of MACs and contracting administrators suggests, neither the HELP bill nor HR 3200 makes it easy for readers to grasp that corporations, not public employees, will create, and probably run, the “option” program. Neither bill comes right out and says, “The Secretary shall hire private-sector corporations to create and run as many health insurance companies as is necessary to make health insurance available for sale to the non-elderly in each health insurance market in America.” Nor is that fact being ballyhooed by the bills’ authors and proponents. But it’s an important feature for “option” supporters to understand because it undermines the claim “option” advocates make over and over that the “option” will look like Medicare."
much more:
http://pnhp.org/blog/2009/09/13/sullivan-publicoptionin3200unlikemedicare/