Healthcare Cooperatives

Baucus Co-Op Plan "Authored" By Ex-Insurance Industry VP

Campaign Silo | Jane Hamsher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Mike Ross, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, Lobbyists, Healthcare Cooperatives, Kent Conrad, PhRMA Lobby, Max Baucus, American Medical Association, Healthcare Reform, Blue Dog Democrats, Wellpoint, Politics News

When Max Baucus circulated his draft plan earlier this week, the PDF documentation page (image) indicates that the "author" was ex-Wellpoint VP Liz Fo...

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Co-ops, the Unconventional and Healthcare Innovation

John Kenagy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care, Healthcare Cooperatives, Politics News
John Kenagy

What's the co-op advantage? There aren't very many of them so we'll have to make them! That's the only way to produce the transformational results that will get patients exactly what they need at lower cost.

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Deflating the Fight for Real Health Care Reform

Deepak Bhargava | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Obama, Public Option, Health Care, Healthcare Cooperatives, Co-Ops, Politics News
Deepak Bhargava

Regardless of the political reality: co-ops are a bad idea.

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Co-Op Health Care Plan Has Major Drawbacks: NYT

New York Times | GARDINER HARRIS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Insurance, Kent Conrad, Healthcare Cooperatives, Healthcare, Nancy Pelosi, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The White House has indicated that it could accept a nonprofit health care cooperative as an alternative to a new government insurance p...

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Solving the Health Care Reform Puzzle

John Kenagy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Health Insurance Plan, Health Insurance, Single Payer Health Care, Obama Health Care, Health Care, Healthcare Cooperatives, Healthcare, Politics News
John Kenagy

Health care reform in America is possible. It's not only possible, it's already been done!

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